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Yersinia pestis Inclusivity Panel – Tier 2
A4.2.5 Yersinia pestis . If any listed strain is not available, an alternate strain shall be selected
from the same biovar. If an alternate strain from the same biovar is not available, a strain
different than those listed below shall be selected if available;
Tier 2 Yersinia pestis Inclusivity Panel
Note: This panel is still under development and strain selection has
not been finalized. The following needs to be addressed:
1) Can we reduce this panel to fewer strains and still have
representative coverage of Yersinia pestsis?
2) If so, which do we keep and which do we remove?
Species Strain Notes
Yersinia pestis Angola A Biovar Antiqua
Yersinia pestis Antiqua Biovar Antiqua
Yersinia pestis CO92 Biovar Orientalis
Yersinia pestis Harbin35 Biovar Mediaevalis
Yersinia pestis KIM Biovar Mediaevalis
Yersinia pestis Nairobi Biovar Antiqua
Yersinia pestis Nicholisk 41 Biovar Mediaevalis
Yersinia pestis Pestoides B Biovar Mediaevalis
Yersinia pestis Pestoides F Biovar Antiqua
Yersinia pestis Pestoides G Biovar Antiqua
Adapted from Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2016) 20th
Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Rockville, MD, USA, AOAC SMPR 2010.002,
, and Yersinia pestis 2016.008-Journal of AOAC
InternationalVolume 99, Number 4, July-August 2016, pp. 1095-1100.
Yersinia pestis Exclusivity - Tier 1