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Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis; formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores that is related to both Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, the pathogen from which Y. pestis evolved and responsible for the Far East scarlet-like fever.
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Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven days after exposure. There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the body and causing associated symptoms.
May 30, 2024 · Yersinia pestis, bacterium in the family Yersiniaceae (order Enterobacterales) that causes plague. Yersinia pestis is classified as a Gram-negative coccobacillus, being spherical to cylindrical in shape and having a thin peptidoglycan cell wall surrounded by an outer lipopolysaccharide membrane.
- Kara Rogers
Dec 9, 2020 · The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia.
- R. Barbieri, M. Signoli, D. Chevé, C. Costedoat, S. Tzortzis, G. Aboudharam, D. Raoult, M. Drancourt
- 2020
Plague vaccine is a vaccine used against Yersinia pestis to prevent the plague. Inactivated bacterial vaccines have been used since 1890 but are less effective against the pneumonic plague, so live, attenuated vaccines and recombinant protein vaccines have been developed to prevent the disease.
Yersinia pestis, Enterobacteriaceae ailesine mensup bir Gram negatif bakteri türüdür. Veba hastılığının üç türüne de (bubonik, pnömonik, septisemik) yol açar. Y. pestis tarih boyunca birçok pandemilere (1347-1353 arasındaki Kara Ölüm gibi) sebep olmuştur.
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