Plague is characterized by geographical foci from which it re-emerges after decades of
silence, a fact currently explained by enzootic and epizootic cycles between plague …

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

Background Yersinia pestis is the flea-transmitted etiological agent of bubonic plague.
Sylvatic plague consists of complex tripartite interactions between diverse flea and wild …

The 15th natural plague focus in China, the Junggar Basin plague focus, is located near an
important communication route connecting China and Central Asia and was discovered after …

The rapid pace of bacterial evolution enables organisms to adapt to the laboratory
environment with repeated passage and thus diverge from naturally-occurring …

The development of models to elucidate the transmission pathways and dynamics of wildlife
diseases remains challenging. Sylvatic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis …

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 …

Plague, an often-fatal zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis, is characterized by
epizootic and quiescent periods. How Y. pestis is maintained during inter-epizootic periods …

Background Plague is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, highly
prevalent in the Central Highlands, a mountainous region in the center of Madagascar. After …

Speculation on how the bacterium Yersinia pestis re-emerges after years of absence in the
Prebalkhash region in Kazakhstan has been ongoing for half a century, but the mechanism …