"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

This suggests that the infections were independent incidents, with no direct transmission between the two people. "Overall, ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists ... choking off breathing. Infection in all forms can be fatal unless treated immediately with antibiotics ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills ... are an effective treatment if ...

Fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection (orange/red) in the Pawlowsky glands. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

pestis. He probably contracted the Hib infection first, Guellil and colleagues say. While respiratory infections rarely leave marks, the boy’s kneecaps had fused to the thighbones above them.

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis ... Researchers collected samples from various districts to detect Y. pestis infection and assess the risk of transmission to humans.

Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part, by debilitating phagocytes. Live-attenuated Y. pestis vaccines protect against pneumonic plague, probably by generating both protective ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.