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 …

ABSTRACT A hallmark of Yersinia pestis infection is a delayed inflammatory response early
in infection. In this study, we use an intradermal model of infection to study early innate …

Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, a disease that can manifest as either
bubonic or pneumonic plague. An interesting feature of plague is that it is a rapidly …

An important virulence strategy evolved by bacterial pathogens to overcome host defenses
is the modulation of host cell death. Previous observations have indicated that Yersinia …

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 …

Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative bacterium, and the causative agent of bubonic plague
and pneumonic plague. Because of its potential use as a biological warfare weapon, the …

In this paper we evaluate the role of neutrophils in pneumonic plague. Splenic neutrophils
from naïve BALB/c mice were found to reduce numbers of culturable Yersinia pestis strain …

Plague, caused by the gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis, primarily affects rodents but
is also an important zoonotic disease of humans. Bubonic plague in humans follows …

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, has been well studied at the molecular and
genetic levels, but little is known about the role that host genes play in combating this highly …

It is established that Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague, and
enteropathogenic Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica share a ca. 70-kb …