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pestis - a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

pest, pestilence, plague

epidemic disease - any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people

bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica - the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person

plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague - a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever

septicemic plague - an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

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It will leverage Enesi's ImplaVax needle-free technology and a proprietary vaccine against the bacteria causing plague (Yersinia pestis) developed by Oxford Vaccine Group, based on a ChAdOx adenovirus vector.

Enesi Pharma collaborates with University of Oxford's Oxford Vaccine Group

Plague is rare in dogs, even in areas to which Yersinia pestis is endemic (1,2).

Pneumonic Plague in a Dog and Widespread Potential Human Exposure in a Veterinary Hospital, United States

Due to the patient's recent trip to a plague-infested area, our suspicion for Yersinia pestis infection was high.

CASE REPORT

Between its first devastating outbreak in the 14th century, and finally fading away by the 1800s, the plague caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium sent millions of Europeans to early graves.

Rats may not have driven the black death plague after all

It has long been thought that the plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which lasted in Europe until the early 19th century, was spread by rats.

'Humans spread the Black Death' UK BULLETINS

It's the plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, agent of the notorious bubonic plague.

The eternal return of the plague

The plague, which is caused by Yersinia pestis, is essentially a rodent-flea-transmitted disease that affects man and other mammalian species.

Humoral and cellular immune response of mice challenged with Yersinia pestis antigenic preparations

The most devastating enemy the Romans ever faced was Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague and that has been the agent of three historic pandemics, including the medieval Black Death.

The threat of pandemic 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