Yersinia pestis is a type of disease-causing bacteria that causes all three forms of plague — bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic. Bubonic plague is widely known as the disease behind the devastating ...

Pneumonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, remains a subject of intense scientific scrutiny given its historical impact and potential modern threat. Research has elucidated the ...

Two articles report the first direct genomic evidence that Yersinia pestis caused the Plague of Justinian and together revised views on how pandemics arise, recur, and spread, reported El Comercio.

Scientists solve the mystery of the Justinian Plague. They identify Yersinia pestis as the cause. The plague devastated the Byzantine Empire. DNA from a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan confirms this.

Daniel Zimbler receives funding from National Institutes of Health, NIAID Wyndham Lathem receives funding from National Institutes of Health, NIAID. Y. pestis can cause three different forms of plague ...

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwest ...

The latest tests conducted by anthropologists in Germany have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle ...

If you’re not familiar with Yersinia pestis, that’s okay. However, I’m sure you’re familiar with the plague. Does the Black Death ring a bell? The most notable outbreaks of plague are the 6th century ...

While studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for epidemics of plague such as the Black Death, scientists found a single small genetic change that fundamentally influenced the evolution of ...

A scientist died after becoming the first American researcher to contract the plague in 50 years, it has been revealed. Malcolm Casadaban, 60, was working with a weakened form of the plague's bacteria ...