title: Was the Black Death yersinial plague?
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology and the Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA. jww3@psu.edu <jww3@psu.edu>
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: DeWitte-Aviña
mesh_terms: D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010930:Plague / Q000266:history* / Q000382:microbiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial