Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague

R Barbieri, M Signoli, D Chevé… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

Plague: history and contemporary analysis

D Raoult, N Mouffok, I Bitam, R Piarroux, M Drancourt - Journal of Infection, 2013 - Elsevier
Plague has caused ravaging outbreaks, including the Justinian plague and the “black death”
in the Middle Ages. The causative agents of these outbreaks have been confirmed using …

[图书][B] Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world

N Varlik - 2015 - books.google.com
This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the
Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and …

Taking" Pandemic" Seriously: Making the Black Death Global

MH Green - The Medieval Globe, 2015 - muse.jhu.edu
This essay introduces the inaugural issue of The Medieval Globe,“Pandemic Disease in the
Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death”. It suggests that the history of the pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Plague gives surprises in the first decade of the 21st century in the United States and worldwide

T Butler - The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Plague is an ancient disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and transmitted by
rodent flea bites that continues to surprise us with first-ever events. This review documents …

[图书][B] The world the plague made: the Black Death and the rise of Europe

J Belich - 2022 - degruyter.com
In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a
human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it …

Detection of Rickettsia felis, Rickettsia typhi, Bartonella Species and Yersinia pestis in Fleas (Siphonaptera) from Africa

H Leulmi, C Socolovschi, A Laudisoit… - PLoS neglected …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Little is known about the presence/absence and prevalence of Rickettsia spp, Bartonella
spp. and Yersinia pestis in domestic and urban flea populations in tropical and subtropical …

Antibiotic therapy of plague: a review

F Sebbane, N Lemaître - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plague—a deadly disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis—is still an international
public health concern. There are three main clinical forms: bubonic plague, septicemic …

Rapid identification and typing of Yersinia pestis and other Yersinia species by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass …

S Ayyadurai, C Flaudrops, D Raoult, M Drancourt - BMC microbiology, 2010 - Springer
Background Accurate identification is necessary to discriminate harmless environmental
Yersinia species from the food-borne pathogens Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia …

An overview of fleas (Siphonaptera) in wild and domestic mammals from Algeria with new data from the central north and south of the country

NR Sidhoum, M Boucheikhchoukh, N Mechouk… - Acta Tropica, 2023 - Elsevier
Fleas (Siphonaptera) are medically and veterinary important ectoparasites known to infest a
wide range of host species. This study presents a systematic review complemented by new …