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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"bubonic plague"”.
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THE PLAGUE AND THE PARTHENON: CRUSADE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND DISEASE IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
… role epidemic diseases, specifically malaria and bubonic plague, played on the course of the Morean War (1684-1699). The Morean War was a major offensive by Christian powers, led by the Venetian Republic, against Ottoman controlled Greece. Christian victories during the war were widely celebrated …
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Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600
… to find positive evidence for the existence of bubonic plague in the ancient world. Most major studies on the Black Death have concerned themselves with the great pandemics of the Middle Ages and none (to my knowledge), have systematically examined the ancient records for earlier evidence of the …
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Behind the Mask
… woman living in London during an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Charles, as she has named herself, has to not only maintain her masculine guise, but also has to fight to cure the plague, deal with betrayal, and grapple the loneliness that surrounds her life as a woman in a man’s world.
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ANOMALIES ZERO and BRIGHTWOOD (Two Screenplays)
… In a world attacked by a resistant strain of the Bubonic Plague, a physician and infectious disease specialist, Dr. Melissa Grant, must travel back in time to retrieve the DNA marker for immunity during The Great Visitation in London, 1665; her ultimate destination a small village, …
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Climate Change and the Great Plague Pandemics of History: Causal Link between Global Climate Fluctuations and Yersinia Pestis Contagion?
The two great bubonic plague outbreaks of history, Justinian's Plague and the Black Death were responsible for the deaths of over one hundred million individuals across Eurasia and Africa. Both occurrences of the plague coincided with climatic shifts that are well documented by both literary and …
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Some Life History and Ecological Activites of the Richardson Ground Squirrel In South Dakota
… and they are also a potential reservoir for bubonic plague.</p>
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Computational, statistical and graph-theoretical methods for disease mapping and cluster detection
… diseases such as yellow fever, cholera and bubonic plague. Traditional epidemiological studies have led to modifications in hygiene, diet, and many other practices that have profoundly altered the dynamic between humans and diseases. In this thesis, we develop mathematical techniques to …
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Structures of the Sensible: Smelling and Tasting the Text after World War I
… of disinfectants in the narratives of the third bubonic plague pandemic reveals the medical and racial structures of olfactory control that produce notions of twentieth century ‘deodorization.’ Reading Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood (1937) with Mia McKenzie’s The Summer We Got Free (2013) reveals the …
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New virulence mechanisms in Yersinia pestis, the plague (Black Death)-causing bacterium: A re-emerging and bioterror pathogen
… to become the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. Y. pestis is also a category A select agent based on its potential use as a biological weapon. Currently, there is no vaccine licensed in the United States for use against Y. pestis so continued research on …
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Novel Virulence Factors in the Pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis Infection, the Causative Agent of Plague
… in Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, and understanding their molecular mechanisms during an infection process are necessary in designing a better vaccine or to formulate an appropriate therapeutic intervention. By using a high-throughput, signature-tagged mutagenic approach, we …
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Combating Plague: Fighting a War on Two Fronts Through Vaccine Design and New Therapeutic Intervention
Assumed by many to be a disease of the past, plague continues to be a globally prevalent disease, with thousands of cases estimated to occur annually. With no FDA-approved vaccine and therapeutics limited to antibiotics, there is an imperative need to develop new prophylactics as well as …
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Anatomizing the social body: representing the plague in London, 1665
… produced in response to the outbreak of bubonic plague in the City of London in 1665. This form of representation utilized visual, textual, and statistical elements in 'anatomizing’ the spaces of the City during the outbreak, and the social processes brought into play by the presence of …
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Purification, immunogenicity and protective potency of the F1 antigen from <i>Yersinia pestis</i>
… world, is the causative agent of pneumonic and bubonic plague. The disease is severe with a high mortality rate. Most plague vaccines are formalised whole cells, which give limited and short-lived immunity. An acellular vaccine could prove to be more effective than using killed whole cells, …