[MR] looking for plague research

[Craig Levin]

You wrote:

> Greetings unto the Tavern!
> 
> I know there are probably experts on this subject in the SCA and  
> thought perhaps they might be able to provide some direction.  I am  
> planning a presentation on the plague (yersenia pestis) and am  
> looking for solid, academic resources on the bacteria, how it works  
> on the cellular,even molecular level, how it is treated, etc.   
> Wikipedia just won't do for this audience, I need medical journals  
> and research papers, information with some sort of peer review.   
> While I'll be digging around in local libraries (I'm in the Baltimore- 
> Washington area) and online, any suggestions for serious references  
> would be greatly appreciated.   And of course, after all this is  
> pulled together and presented, I will be happy to share it with  
> anyone interested in seeing the end product.

Have you looked at the resources at the National Library of
Medicine, since you're in the area? I worked there as a temp
several years ago, & they're both well-stocked & very helpful.
PubMed, their articles database, is accessible on the WWW as:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/queryd.fcgi?linkbar=plain

Also, the bacterium is usually referred to as Yersinia. Just as a
warning-I plugged the bacterium's name into their database, & I
got thousands of entries.

Their catalogue's online, too. It's at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=nlmcatalog

Pedro