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    What is Yersinia pestis?

    Question #98964. Asked by author. (Aug 28 08 6:19 AM)


    22crows

    		Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is a facultative anaerobe that can infect humans and other animals.

    Human Y. pestis infection takes three main forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and the famous bubonic plagues. All three forms have been responsible for high mortality rates in epidemics throughout human history, including the Black Death (a bubonic plague) that accounted for the death of approximately one-third of the European population in 1347 to 1353.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia_pestis

    http://www.bacteriamuseum.org/species/ypestis.shtml

    Aug 28 08, 6:54 AM

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