Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is a mammalian vector-borne disease,
transmitted by fleas that serve as the vector between rodent hosts. For many pathogens …

Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague. Unlike the other pathogenic Yersinia
species, Y. pestis has evolved an arthropod-borne route of transmission, alternately infecting …

Transmission by fleabite is a recent evolutionary adaptation that distinguishes Yersinia
pestis, the agent of plague, from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and all other enteric bacteria …

Population genetics and comparative genomics analyses of the pathogenic Yersinia species
have indicated that arthropodborne transmission is an evolutionarily recent adaptation in …

Conclusion Y. pestis Ymt and Hms proteins have complementary but distinct roles. Ymt is
required for survival in the midgut compartment, but not the proventriculus compartment, of …

The successful reconstruction of an ancient bacterial genome from archaeological material
presents an important methodological advancement for infectious disease research. The …

Publisher Summary Bubonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis ranks as the most severe
bacterial disease known to humanity. In the mouse, this bleak process consists of an initial …

Since its first identification in 1894 during the third pandemic in Hong Kong, there has been
significant progress of understanding the lifestyle of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that is …

Conclusion Although there is still a lot of speculation about the emergence and evolution of
Y. pestis, recent advances made by different laboratories and the promising approach of …

Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, is transmitted to mammals by infected fleas. Y. pestis
exhibits a distinct life stage in the flea, where it grows in the form of a cohesive biofilm that …