The small yellow rods seen resting on these purple blades are Yersinia pestis bacteria – the cause of bubonic plague. This bacterial infection is mainly spread to humans by fleas but can also be ...

A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body ... still extensive debate on the subject of exactly how the bacterium infected individuals, it appears to have involved ...

“Still, it’s significant that we can show it could have happened.” Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes ...

It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been present in Central and Northern Europe for more than 5,000 ...

Cause of London Great Plague confirmed Plague traced back to Bronze Age The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, was responsible for several major historic pandemics, including the infamous Black ...

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.

Bubonic plague, the disease that wiped out a third of Europe's population in the 14th century, is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis which is spread by fleas on rodents. Up to 2,000 cases of ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year globally, 10 to 15 of them in the western United ...

The Yersinia pestis bacterium causes both bubonic plague, a form of the disease you get from a flea or rat bite, and pneumonic plague, a respiratory infection you get by inhaling the bacteria.

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 ...