Yersinia pestis

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title: Yersinia pestis
text: Yersinia 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. It is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea. It causes the disease plague, which caused the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Plague takes thr
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description: Species of bacteria, cause of plague
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis
date created: 2001-12-05T13:41:16Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T08:39:59Z
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