Chronic infections in laboratory rodents from inoculation of nonencapsulated plague bacilli (Yersinia pestis).
Infections with nonencapsulated Y. pestis persisted for 9 weeks in mice and 56 weeks in rats after experimental inoculation. Mice succumbed with bacteremia. Rats developed chronic lesions containing nonencapsulated plague bacilli.
D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D002908:Chronic Disease; D051379:Mice; D010930:Plague / Q000276:immunology* / Q000401:mortality; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013045:Species Specificity; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000276:immunology / Q000472:pathogenicity*
D000906:Antibodies