pestis

I dreaded having to tell you that the pestis and points were off.

A variety of alternatives to the Y. pestis have been put forward.

The word meant the disease plague, which is called pestis in Latin.

Blood tests specific for Y. pestis showed that five participants in the study were infected.

If the bottles really do contain Y. pestis, your child will most likely be contaminated.

But now the problem had been taken out of his hands by chance, and by Pasteurella pestis.

Nevertheless, the sequence was clearly still from Y. pestis.

The transmission of Y. pestis by fleas is well characterized.

Individual cases of foxes infected with Yersina pestis are known.

By then, however, scientists had discovered Yersinia pestis and identified its means of infection.

The reservoir commonly associated with Y. pestis is several species of rodents.

Oh, there are related versions of the bacteria, Yersinia pestis, alive and well today.

Plague is a disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.

This happened after he said he lost samples of Yersinia pestis.

'Direct exposure to the pestis obviously means you're infected.

Positive laboratory test results for Yersinia pestis were reported by India.

Originally named Pasteurella pestis, the organism was renamed in 1967.

Only a few still have the expertise to detect Y. pestis and other microbes that remain a threat to the world.

The bacterial samples we have here are not identical with any known profile of Pasteurella pestis.

'Ordinary plague, Pasteurella pestis, is one thing,' said a spokesman for the department.

It is generally agreed today that the disease in question was plague, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria.

Currently, three varieties of Y. pestis are known.

'What we have here is a form of Pasteurella pestis, which is the medical name for plague.

Pneumonia caused by Yersinia pestis is usually called pneumonic plague.

'With that amount of pestis, we're talking hundreds of thousands of innocent people.