Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, poses as great a threat to human life now as it did during the 14th-century Black Death plague pandemic.

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Yersinia pestis causes the infection. It is spread by droplets in the air. People can catch pneumonic plague from face-to-face contact with someone who has the disease.

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Bacteria -- Yersinia pestis causes the so-called Bubonic plague (BP), which is characterized by buboes, swollen lumps that are reddened, smooth, painful, and tender.

A bacterium, Yersinia pestis, causes the disease in animals and humans.
Plague is a disease that is transmitted from infected animals, usually by fleas, to humans.

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Was it due only to the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis, to this and other conditions such as overwhelming streptococcal and/or staphylococcal infections that coexisted, or could it have been due to anthrax?

Plague is an acute, severe infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bacterium is often found in fleas and wild rodents such as rats, squirrels, chipmunks or prairie dogs.

Bubonic Plague is an acute, severe infectious disorder caused by the bacterium (bacillus) Yersinia Pestis. These bacteria can be carried by small wild rodents, other wild animals or even household pets.

Plague: Plague is caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis and is transmitted by fleas on rodents. It has gained attention in recent years as a potential weapon of bioterrorists.

Plague is a bacterial infection passed by fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, and it is believed to be the agent responsible for pandemics such as the Black Death of the 1300s.

The causative agent of plague, Yersinia pestis, is found in rodents and their fleas.

The plague was a highly contagious, infectious, virulent, devastating disease due to a bacteria called Yersinia pestis which mainly infects rats and other rodents that serve as the prime reservoir for the bacteria.

It is caused by the organism Yersinia pestis. Wild rodents, like rats, spread the disease to humans. Plague is spread among rodents by a flea bite.

These acute febrile diseases are caused by Yersinia pestis (Pasteurella pestis), discovered independently by Shibasaburo Kitasato and Alexandre Yersin in 1894, a bacterium that is transmitted to people by fleas from rats, ...

Bubonic plague is an illness caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This bacterium is carried by a certain type of flea, commonly known as a rat flea, which infects humans and animals.

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An infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis that can be spread from animals to humans and is normally spread to humans by fleas (called bubonic plague) or from person to person by respiratory droplets (called pnenmonic plague).

The cause of plague, the Yersinia pestis bacterium, was discovered in 1894 by Alexandre Yersin. Soon after, scientists realized that fleas transmitted the bacteria.

A form of bubonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, that was pandemic throughout Europe and much of Asia in the 14th century. [Heritage].

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Plague is caused by the organism Yersinia pestis. Rodents, such as rats, spread the disease to humans.

plague: Acute, infectious disease with a high mortality rate; caused by Yersinia pestis.

Plague is one of the most virulent and potentially lethal diseases known. It is caused by an organism called Yersinia pestis.

1 kg of anthrax could kill 10,000 people, although technical difficulties with preparing the spores in a sufficiently fine powder would probably limit actual deaths to a fraction of this number. Some other potential agents, including Yersinia pestis, ...

Yersinia pestis (Bacterium pestis Lehmann & Neumann, 1896) van Loghem 1944 (aka Pasteurella pestis Bergey et al. 1923; plague/bubonic plague)
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