Could the threat of another worldwide pandemic be on the way? On Jan. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first American, a man in Louisiana, had died from severe avian ...

The genus Yersinia, a member of the family Yersiniaceae, is currently composed of 26 species, including three human pathogens: the causative agent of plague, Yersinia pestis, and enteropathogenic ...

Three of the world’s seven known pandemics have been caused by the plague, a bacterial infection triggered by the Yersinia pestis microbe. It can be treated with antibiotics but none of the ...

When secreted by the causative bacterium Yersinia pestis during infection, these antigens control important virulence mechanisms: F1 is exported to the bacterial surface where it is the major ...