Yersinia pestis

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Noun1.Yersinia pestis - a bacillus bacterium that causes the plague; aerosolized bacteria can be used as a bioweapon
B, bacillus - aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
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Yersinia pestis infection in dogs: 62 cases (2003-2011).
Pneumonic Plague in a Dog and Widespread Potential Human Exposure in a Veterinary Hospital, United States
What is now beyond question is that Yersinia pestis was indeed the pathogen responsible for two of the most destructive pandemics ever.
The eternal return of the plague
Relationship between virulence and immunity as revealed in recent studies of the F1 capsule of Yersinia pestis. Clin Infect Dis.
Humoral and cellular immune response of mice challenged with Yersinia pestis antigenic preparations
When the bacteria are in lungs, the transmission of Yersinia pestis is possible through various ways: contact transmission, in which one may be infected through physical contact with respiratory particles on the infected surface; airborne transmission, which occurs through inhaling the bacteria causing the disease through successive contact with the nose or mouth of an infected individual; respiratory particles, which occurs through respiratory droplets which is through shedding of respiratory particles (i.e., droplets or aerosols) from an infected human or rodent into the environment [21].
The Effect of Seasonal Weather Variation on the Dynamics of the Plague Disease
Vets have diagnosed five-month-old boxer Lily with yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind the Black Death epidemic which killed up to 200million people in the 14th century.
My puppy's got bubonic plague bug; SCARY TIMES FOR LILY'S FAMILY
Blood specimens or lymph node aspirates from six (29%) patients tested positive for Yersinia pestis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Outbreak of plague in a high malaria endemic region--Nyimba District, Zambia, March-May 2015
The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis may have lurked in a medieval European reservoir for at least 300 years, researchers from Germany suggest January 13 in PLOSONE.
Bubonic plague hung out in Europe
The disease is caused by an enterobacterium, Yersinia pestis, which is transmitted by fleas.
Rail dig unearths black death skeletons
The qPCR assays include specific chemistries for the identification of Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, Coxiella burnetti, Brucella spp., PanOrthopox and VEE viruses.
Affinity Life Sciences to Produce Lyophilized Chem-Bio Assays for SRC Acumen
Finally, Stevens Crawshaw wisely avoids the issue of retrospective diagnosis, the debate over whether the epidemic disease experienced really can be identified with modern bubonic plagues (Yersinia pestis).
Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice
Yersinia pestis is the microorganism carried by fleas on black rats that brought Black Plague to Europe in the Dark Ages as it wiped out millions of people and changed the course of world history for the next five hundred years.
Dyster plays king as rats take control in LaSalle
tularensis transcriptome during infection of mouse macrophages [72] and sRNA expression of Yersinia pestis grown in vitro and in the mouse lung [73].
The impact of "omic" and imaging technologies on assessing the host immune response to biodefence agents
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