Plague Poisons and Virulence

Plagues, poisons and potions: plague-spreading conspiracies in the western Alps c. 1530–1640

(p. 258). That this could take on the functions of the soul was recognized (and welcomed). Francois Azouvi examines the work of Pierre Cabanais. Drawing from his predecessors, Cabanais distinguished physical man from moral or interior man, whose nature resides in the brain. Since the brain acts upon the other organs, then the physical/moral relationship is essentially physical (p. 272). This ne...

Cholera and Fever Poisons

Cholera and Fever Poisons

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Diagnosis of plague and identification of virulence markers in Yersinia pestis by multiplex-PCR.

We have developed a procedure for the rapid diagnosis of plague that also allows the identification of prominent virulence markers of Y. pestis strains. This procedure is based upon the use of a single polymerase chain reaction with multiple pairs of primers directed at genes present in the three virulence plasmids as well as in the chromosomal pathogenicity island of the bacterium. The techniq...

Poisons: Their Isolation and Identification