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Volume 10, Number 9—September 2004
Research

Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and Plague Pandemics

Michel Drancourt*, Véronique Roux*, La Vu Dang*, Lam Tran-Hung*, Dominique Castex†, Viviane Chenal-Francisque‡, Hiroyuki Ogata§, Pierre-Edouard Fournier*, Eric Crubézy¶, and Didier Raoult*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; †Université de Bordeaux 1, Talence, France; ‡Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; §Information Génomique et Structurale, Marseille, France; ¶Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

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Appendix Figure 4

Geographic origin and routes of spreading of three historical plague pandemics labeled in red (Justinian plague), green (Black Death), and blue (modern), according to historical transcriptions reviewed in Perry (2).

Appendix Figure 4. Geographic origin and routes of spreading of three historical plague pandemics labeled in red (Justinian plague), green (Black Death), and blue (modern), according to historical transcriptions reviewed in Perry (2).

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