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    Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis; formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores that is related to both...
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    of Yersinia are pathogenic in humans; in particular, Y. pestis is the causative agent of the plague. Rodents are the natural reservoirs of Yersinia; less...
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    14th century population. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas. One of the most significant events in European...
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    of Justinian was Yersinia pestis, the same bacterium responsible for the Black Death (1346–1353). Ancient and modern Yersinia pestis strains are closely...
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  • Studies in Sweden, on the Gok2 Neolithic Yersinia pestis strain, was discovered to be the basal to all known Y. pestis strains with the use of genome reconstruction...
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    Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms...
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  • transmission of Yersinia pestis is generally thought to occur only through the bites of fleas whose mid guts become obstructed by replicating Y. pestis several...
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  • Look up pestis or nosos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pestis may refer to: Plague (disease) Yersinia pestis, a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium...
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    Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven...
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    total of 71 cases and 61 fatalities were reported by Board of Health. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, is transmitted by the oriental...
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    siderophore found in the pathogenic bacteria Yersinia pestis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and Yersinia enterocolitica, as well as several strains of...
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    stream, it has an LD50 comparable to Y. pestis at only 10 CFU. Genetically, the pathogen causing plague, Y. pestis, is very similar to Y. pseudotuberculosis...
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    Plague vaccine is a vaccine used against Yersinia pestis to prevent the plague. Inactivated bacterial vaccines have been used since 1890 but are less...
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    Brucella, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Listeria, Francisella, Legionella, and Yersinia pestis. These can exist intracellularly, but can exist outside host cells...
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    first and most severe manifestation of the second pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. The term Black Death was not used until the late 17th century...
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    for medical reasons (anthrax etc.) remain separate. Yersinia pestis is in effect a strain of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, but with a pathogenicity island...
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    shrews. The oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a vector of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague. The disease was spread to...
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    Pneumonic plague is a severe lung infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, headache, shortness of breath, chest pain...
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    Gram-negative coccobacillus responsible for causing whooping cough. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, is also coccobacillus. Coxiella...
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    Septicemic plague is one of the three forms of plague, and is caused by Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative species of bacterium. Septicemic plague is a systemic...
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    is some question of whether it was a particularly deadly strain of Yersinia pestis that caused the Black Death, research indicates no significant difference...
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  • following an accidental laboratory exposure to an attenuated strain of Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that causes plague. Casadaban was born to John and Dolores...
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    of London's population—in 18 months. The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which is usually transmitted to a human by the bite of a...
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    includes some familiar pathogens. For example, the type genus Yersinia includes Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. This family is a member of...
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    Asia around the mid-19th century. Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which exists in parasitic fleas of several species in the wild and...
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  • (typeface class), a typeface family designed between about 1470 and 1600 a Yersinia pestis biovar thought to correspond to the Plague of Justinian A common misspelling...
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  • longevity. Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative bacterium and belongs to the family of Enterobatteriaceae. Its closest relatives are Yersinia pseudotuberculosis...
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  • that contain a sylvatic cycle include trichinosis, dengue viruses, Yersinia pestis, Chagas disease, and rabies. Sylvatic plague Fernandes O, Mangia RH...
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    Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Listeria spp., Shewanella oneidensis and Yersinia pestis. Certain eukaryotes are also facultative anaerobes, including fungi...
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    is an infectious bacterial disease caused by the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis) that primarily affects rodents, such as prairie dogs. It is the same...
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