Yersinia pestis causes plague, a zoonotic disease with high mortality that is transmitted by fleabite or aerosol.A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-license
The Yersinia pseudotuberculosis complex (YPC) consists of the three species Y.pseudotuberculosis sensu strict (s.s.), Yersinia pestis and Yersinia similis.Y.pes
Mus spretus SEG/Pas (SEG) mice contrast with laboratory mice by their exceptional resistance to bubonic plague.We previously reported that SEG early immune resp
Rapid development of omics technologies provide us an unprecedented opportunity for holistic understanding of life.Yersinia pestis is an agent changing the pace
The genus Yersinia has been used as a model system to study pathogen evolution.Using whole genome sequencing of all Yersinia species we delineate the gene compl
Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of the disease plague, has been implicated in three historical pandemics.These include the third pandemic of the 19th a
Several recent phylogeographic studies have suggested that Yersinia pestis originated in central China as more diverse lineages are found in that region than an
Next-generation sequencing technologies coupled with targeted DNA enrichment have greatly expanded the scope of genetic analyses possible from ancient remains,
Yersinia pestis causes pneumonic plague, an acute and rapidly progressing bronchopneumonia that is nearly always fatal without antibiotic treatment.There is cur