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

Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed hundreds of millions and left a gruesome mark on history. The Black Death, which struck 14th-century Europe, led to the ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. Technically known as the virus Yersinia pestis, the bubonic ...

Drancourt, Michel, Michel Signoli, La Vu Dang, Bruno Bizot, Véronique Roux, Stéfan Tzortzis, and Didier Raoult. 2007. "Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients." Emerging ...

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 ...

It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis. On top of that, a plague can refer to a large number of insects or animals in one place that are causing a lot of damage, like the ...

LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black ...

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 ...

Among the scars left by this mass mortality event are those in the genomes of modern humans, including the prevalence of gene variants that may have protected against the causative bacterium Yersinia ...

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.

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