Researchers have identified how one type of bacteria, Yersinia, immobilizes the immune system in order to grow in the organ tissues of mice. To do so, the researchers extended the use of a technique ...

When Consumer Reports released the results of a study last week that found most pork was contaminated with Yersinia enterocolitica, the media and bloggers were abuzz with headlines like: “Almost 70 ...

There are two main forms of plague: bubonic and pneumonic. Bubonic plague is the most common and is characterised by painful ...

More than 130 people are sick in France as part of a Yersinia outbreak linked to a raw milk goat’s cheese brand. France has 133 cases, while Belgium, Norway, and Luxembourg all have one each in the ...

Learn more about Yersinia pestis, the bacteria behind the ‘Black Death,’ which changed over time to cause less virulent, but longer pandemics. A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in ...

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 ...

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.

Bacteria-killing viruses could be employed not just in health care, but also in the food industry, a study conducted at the University of Helsinki indicates. Research focused on the utilisation of ...

(CBS/AP) Using DNA taken from centuries-old skeletons, scientists have cracked the genetic code of the bacterium that caused the Black Death, one of history's worst plagues. They found that the germ, ...

Y. pestis can cause three different forms of plague: bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, causing severe pneumonia. It’s the most serious form of the disease, with ...

A team of German and Canadian scientists has shown that today's plague pathogen has been around at least 600 years. The Black Death claimed the lives of one-third of Europeans in just five years from ...

Using ancient DNA from eight teeth under Jerash's Roman hippodrome, scientists date the outbreak to mid-6th–early 7th century, finding nearly identical strains from a fast, deadly wave. Two articles ...