New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the ...

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pestis. For instance, rather than traveling from an insect bite to the lymph nodes, the bacteria can enter the body through other routes and cause an entirely different set of symptoms. Bubonic plague ...

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Scientists identified three cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague, in human remains - two in a mass burial in Somerset, and one in a ring cairn monument in Cumbria. The team ...

When secreted by the causative bacterium Yersinia pestis during infection, these antigens control important virulence mechanisms: F1 is exported to the bacterial surface where it is the major ...