As a zoonosis, Plague is also an ecological entity, a complex system of ecological
interactions between the pathogen, the hosts, and the spatiotemporal variations of its …

Plague has been known since ancient times as a re‐emerging infectious disease, causing
considerable socioeconomic burden in regional hotspots. To better understand the …

Abstract Purpose of Review In 2020, the Appropriations Committee for the US House of
Representatives directed the CDC to develop a national One Health framework to combat …

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 …

Invasive transformer species change the character, condition, form, or nature of ecosystems
and deserve considerable attention from conservation scientists. We applied the transformer …

Plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) is a deadly flea-borne disease that
remains a threat to public health nearly worldwide and is particularly disruptive ecologically …

Background Human plague cases are reported annually in the central highland regions of
Madagascar, where the disease is endemic. The socioenvironmental characteristics and …

Extraction of the genetic material of the causative organism of plague, Yersinia pestis, from
the remains of persons who died during the Black Death has confirmed that pathogen's role …

Abstract Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) are hematophagous ectoparasites that can reduce
the fitness of vertebrate hosts. Laboratory populations of fleas decline under dry conditions …

Plague is caused by a bacterial pathogen (Yersinia pestis) that can infect a wide range of
mammal species, but its presence in wildlife is often underappreciated. Using a large-scale …