A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body ... a different phenotype when delivered intranasally. The bacteria are unable to colonize lung tissues but can escape ...

Today, more than 100 years after Robert Koch unequivocally showed that a disease—anthrax—was caused by bacteria, we are more enlightened. We know that Yersinia pestis was the probable cause of ...

pestis. He probably contracted the Hib infection first, Guellil and colleagues say. While respiratory infections rarely leave marks, the boy’s kneecaps had fused to the thighbones above them.

Scientists identified three cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague, in human remains - two in a mass burial in Somerset, and one in a ring cairn monument in Cumbria. The team ...

Scientists have discovered DNA of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in a mummy from Egypt dated back approximately 3,300 years, confirming the presence of the plague outside Eurasia. This ...

The team identified the genome of the plague-causing bacterium, Yersinia pestis, in the bone samples of two individuals. The ...

Researchers analysed the remains and identified traces of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible ... transmitting the bacteria. It primarily targets the lymphatic system, with initial flu ...