Yersinia pestis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis ) is a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is a facultative anaerobe that can infect humans and othe...
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The organism Yersinia pestis is responsible for the plague, a disease that has an extremely important place in human history. During the 6th century AD, the plague ravaged the known world over a 50 year period causing 100 million deaths.
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Yersinia pestis data ... Sequence and annotation of Yersinia pestis CO92 ... Genome sequence of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague.;
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www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/Y_pestis/
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The Centers for Disease Control and Preventon ... Perry RD, Fetherston JD. Yersinia pestis--etiologic agent of plague. Clin Microbiol Rev, 1997;10:35-66. ... Introduction: Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Preventon ... Wayson stain of Yersinia pestis. Note the characterisitc "safety pin" appearance of the bacteria. (View enlarged image.) ... Perry RD, Fetherston JD. Yersinia pestis--etiologic agent of plague. Clin Microbiol Rev, 1997;10:35-66.
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Infectious Diseases Course ... Plague or black death is an infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentially transmitted to humans by the bite of infected fleas. The disease follows urban and sylvatic cycles and is manifested in bubonic and pneumonic forms [note: bubo is derived from a Greek word for groin].
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Yersinia pestis are bacteria often found in rats and other animals, and can cause plague. This eMedTV Web page discusses this organism in detail, including transmission methods, and offers statistics about how often human infections typically occur. ... Yersinia pestis bacteria -- the organism responsible for plague --
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plague.emedtv.com/yersinia-pestis/yersinia-pestis.html
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Plague is a life-threatening infection caused by the organism Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that caused the 14th-century Black Death plague pandemic. ... In nature, infected fleas transmit Y. pestis primarily among rodents. When a plague outbreak among rodents kills many of them in short order, infected fleas that...
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www.mayoclinic.com/health/plague/DS00493
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