Pulmonary infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis causes pneumonic plague, an often-
fatal disease for which no vaccine is presently available. Antibody-mediated humoral …

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 …

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the Yersinia pestis microorganism, which is
transmitted to the human host from a natural reservoir (different rodent species) by a flea …

Our previous study has demonstrated that Yersinia pestis Microtus 201 is a low virulent
strain to the Chinese-origin rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, and can protect it against …

Neutrophils are the primary immune cell recruited to the site of bacterial infection, where
they can rapidly deploy vesicles filled with various pro-inflammatory and anti-microbial …

The Gram negative bacterium Yersinia pestis can infect humans by multiple routes to cause
plague. Three plague pandemics have occurred and Y. pestis has been linked to biowarfare …

To study the possible mechanism of extracellular resistance to phagocytes developed by
Yersinia pestis in the early stage of plague infection, the behaviour of two Y. pestis strains …

The plague is an infectious bacterial disease having a high fatality rate without treatment. It
has occurred in three huge pandemics since the 6th century with millions of deaths and …

Yunnan Province, China is thought to be the original source of biovar Orientalis of Yersinia
pestis, the causative agent of the third plague pandemic that has spread globally since the …