TY - JOUR AU - Eisen, Rebecca J. AU - Petersen, Jeannine M. AU - Higgins, Charles L. AU - Wong, David AU - Levy, Craig E. AU - Mead, Paul S. AU - Schriefer, Martin E. AU - Griffith, Kevin S. AU - Gage, Kenneth L. AU - Ben Beard, Charles T1 - Persistence of Yersinia pestis in Soil Under Natural Conditions T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 6 SP - 941 SN - 1080-6059 AB - As part of a fatal human plague case investigation, we showed that the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, can survive for at least 24 days in contaminated soil under natural conditions. These results have implications for defining plague foci, persistence, transmission, and bioremediation after a natural or intentional exposure to Y. pestis. KW - Yersinia pestis KW - soil KW - plague KW - dispatch KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1406.080029 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/6/08-0029_article ER - End of Reference