Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis ... Researchers collected samples from various districts to detect Y. pestis infection and assess the risk of transmission to humans.

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

Technically known as the virus Yersinia ... The infected mummy provides new clues as to how the deadly plagued first spread west. 'This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside ...

Fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection (orange/red) in the Pawlowsky glands. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

Three of the world’s seven known pandemics have been caused by the plague, a bacterial infection triggered by the Yersinia pestis microbe. It can be treated with antibiotics but none of the ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists ... the bite of a flea that has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.

It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis. On top of that ... the plague killed around 90 per cent of the people it infected, and in some cases, it killed everyone it infected.

The child's infection was caused by the same bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that was the culprit in the Black Death, which decimated Europe's population in the 14th century. People can become ...