Abstract Background: In western North America, plague epizootics caused by Yersinia pestis
appear to sweep across landscapes, primarily infecting and killing rodents, especially …

Background Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, was responsible for several
devastating epidemics throughout history and is currently of global importance to current …

Plague, the disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, has greatly impacted human
civilization. Y. pestis is a successful global pathogen, with active foci on all continents except …

Plague disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis routinely affects
animals and occasionally humans, in the western United States. The strains native to the …

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of deadly plague, is considered a reemerging infectious
disease and a significant biological terrorism threat. The present project focused on …

Plague is a pandemic human invasive disease caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia
pestis. We here report a comparison of 17 whole genomes of Y. pestis isolates from global …

Yersinia pestis is the etiologic agent of plague, a disease that is transmitted from rodent to
rodent and from rodent to humans by fleabites. Multiple copies of three insertion sequences …

Background Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is responsible for some of the
greatest epidemic scourges of mankind. It is widespread in the western United States …

ABSTRACT Background & objectives: Appreciating how Yersinia pestis, the etiological
agent of plague, spreads among black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies …

Yersinia pestis was introduced to Brazil during the third plague pandemic and currently
exists in several recognized foci. There is currently limited available phylogeographic data …