Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is proved to be a recently emerged clone from
Y. pseudotuberculosis. However, the diseases they cause and their patterns of transmission …

The pathogenesis of infection with Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, was
examined following subcutaneous infection of BALB/c mice with a fully virulent strain …

Yersinia pestis (Y. Pestis) is an infamous pathogen causing plague pandemics throughout
history and is a selected agent of bioterrorism threatening public health. Y. pestis was first …

Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, has arisen from a less virulent pathogen, Yersinia
pseudotuberculosis, by a rapid evolutionary process. Although Y. pestis displays a large …

Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative, zoonotic, bacterial pathogen, and the causative agent of
plague. The bubonic form of plague occurs subsequent to deposition of bacteria in the skin …

As a pathogen of plague, Yersinia pestis caused three massive pandemics in history that
killed hundreds of millions of people. Yersinia pestis is highly invasive, causing severe …

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We determined the role of Yersinia pestis virulence markers in an animal model of
pneumonic plague. Eleven strains of Y. pestis were characterized using PCR assays to …

There is limited information concerning the nature and extent of the immune response to the
virulence determinants of Yersinia pestis during the course of plague infection. In this study …

Genetic analyses have determined that Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis are
so closely related that they are a single species. Transitional strains of Y. pestis (also known …