Characterization of the O‐antigen gene clusters of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the cryptic O‐antigen gene cluster of Yersinia pestis shows that the plague bacillus is most closely related to and has evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype O:1b

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