[HTML][HTML] Yersinia pestis and Plague: Some knowns and unknowns

R Yang, S Atkinson, Z Chen, Y Cui, Z Du… - Zoonoses (Burlington …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The key issues need to be solved in future … genome sequencing from infected human skeletal
remains dating from the Stone Age, already had most if not all the plague-related virulence

Plague vaccines: new developments in an ongoing search

JA Rosenzweig, EK Hendrix, AK Chopra - Applied Microbiology and …, 2021 - Springer
plague pathogen is benefitted by having additional virulence factors extending beyond its
T3SS injectosome. Although the 70-kb virulence … rooted in host genetics rather than reversion …

The Natural and Clinical History of Plague: From the Ancient Pandemics to Modern Insights

A Bennasar-Figueras - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
… of the plague bacterium from the different eras, the detected loss of a genomic region that
includes virulence-… to gain a more comprehensive understanding of all these pending issues. …

Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes lack the virulence-associated YpfΦ prophage present in modern pandemic strains

JH Bonczarowska, J Susat… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… three major plague pandemics (Justinianic, Medieval and Modern). Previous studies on …
pestis strains (including the two Danish genomes reconstructed in this study: Sejet Ødekirkegård …

Human plague: An old scourge that needs new answers

X Vallès, NC Stenseth, C Demeure… - PLoS neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Given recent trends and plague’s resilience to control in the … and recognized virulence, it
is striking to realize that plague is … Plague circulation and population genetics of the reservoir …

A genomic and historical synthesis of plague in 18th century Eurasia

M Guellil, O Kersten, A Namouchi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… Finally, we analyzed the virulence gene profiles for all genomes by using the virulence
available data only allow us to elucidate the most general trends. Yet, the data presented in this …

Prospects for the Synthesis of Ecological and Molecular-Genetic Approaches to the Problem of the Speciation of the Plague Microbe Yersinia pestis

VV Suntsov - Biology Bulletin Reviews, 2020 - Springer
genome of the future plague microbe is explained by the instantaneous establishment of
genomic … initial population of a plague microbe with high virulence for laboratory animals and …

The role of louse-transmitted diseases in historical plague pandemics

R Barbieri, M Drancourt, D Raoult - The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2021 - thelancet.com
New analysis of ancient genomes reveal that … Present, which challenges the rodent-murine
ectoparasite-human model of plague transmission and historical details around plague

Stone Age Yersinia pestis genomes shed light on the early evolution, diversity, and ecology of plague

A Andrades Valtueña, GU Neumann… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… continents throughout this period, a trend not observed in other pathogens for which ancient
… In the case of the Iberian genome I2470, we observe the complete set of known virulence

[HTML][HTML] Yersinia pestis strains isolated in natural plague foci of Caucasus and Transcaucasia in the context of the global evolution of species

SV Pisarenko, AY Evchenko, DA Kovalev… - Genomics, 2021 - Elsevier
… of core issues, such as the origin of three historical plague pandemics … virulence. In scientific
literature there are no descriptions of outbreaks of plague, where the strains of the plague