Antiqua biovar of the causative agent of plague. Yersinia pestis biovar Antiqua str. UG05-0454

Yersinia pestis biovar Antiqua str. UG05-045. Yersinia pestis biovar Antiqua str. UG05-045 was isolated from a bubo aspirate from a 10 year old female patient. The culture was confirmed at the CDC central laboratory in Arua, Uganda. The isolate is positive for anti-F1 direct fluorescent antibody and was lysed by Y. pestis-specific bacteriophage. UG05-0454 is sensitive to chloramphenicol, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, streptomycin, and doxycycline. Virulence studies showed that 3.21 x 103 cfu killed mice within four days. This organism is being sequenced for comparative genome analysis of Yersinia pestis strains isolated from different parts of the world.