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Yesenia pestis is an organism carried by fleas and other insects. This bacteria caused up to 60% of the people in Europe to die in the middle 1500's.

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What diseases are caused by yesinia pestis?

Human Yesinia Pestis can cause infections such as pneumonic, septicimic and bubonic plague. This is suspected to have been the cause of some of the high-mortality epidemics in human history. It appears to have an effect on some animals such as the black-tailed prairie dog and the black-footed ferret.


What micro-organism Alaxandre Yersin discovered?

He discovered Yesinia pestis a bacillus that causes the Black Death also called The Pest.


Hisna Yes or yesinia?

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What type of microorganism is plague?

The bubonic plague is a form of Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis is a bacterium that is facultative and anaerobic. Other forms of Y. pestis include the pneumonic and septicemic plagues.


When was pasteurella pestis renamed Yersinia pestis?

The bacteria Pasteurella pestis was renamed Yersinia pestis in 1944 by the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria. This change in nomenclature was due to advances in microbiology and taxonomy that reclassified the bacteria into the Yersinia genus.


What does pestis mean in Latin?

Pestis in English means plague, ruin and sometimes death


Does Yersinia Pestis have a mitochondria?

No. Yersinia Pestis is a bacterium and so is a prokaryote. Prokaryotes do not have such organelles.


What kind of bacteria is the bubonic plague?

bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly known as Pasteurella pestis)


Is yersenia pestis multicellular or unicellular?

Yesenia pestis is the bacteria, which causes plague. This is unicellular organism.


What is bacterium an example of?

Yersinia pestis, AKA, Bubonic Plague


What are the Causes of the plague?

fleas, rats, lice,boils and all sorts of disease


What type of microbes was in the black plague?

The cause of the black plague was the blocked flea. This flea would regurgitate the plague into the victims blood stream whilst feeding on them. The fleas had to run off the rat onto a human. The victim would start getting headaches, then chills and fever which made the victim exhausted. The victim might vomit and get soreness in their limbs.