Since the beginning of the 1990s, the number of human cases of plague has been rising, and outbreaks are reappearing in various countries after decades of quiescence. Plague is therefore categorized as a reemerging disease. Until recently, Yersinia pestis was considered as uniformly susceptible to agents that are active against gram-negative bacteria. The isolation in Madagascar of two multidrug-resistant strains of Y. pestis, one resistant to all of the antimicrobial agents recommended for treatment and prophylaxis of plague and the other resistant to a smaller array of drugs, is worrisome. The demonstration that horizontal gene transfer in the flea midgut may be the source of antibiotic-resistant Y. pestis strains is of great concern and indicates that such a clinically ominous event may occur again. There is also concern that a biological attack with Y. pestis might employ a natural or engineered antimicrobial-resistant strain. Surveillance of antibiotic resistance in Y. pestis should therefore become systematic worldwide.
Fleas, who then carry it to the victims they bite.
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.
No. Yersinia Pestis is a bacterium and so is a prokaryote. Prokaryotes do not have such organelles.
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.
Yersinia pestis, AKA, Bubonic Plague
fleas, rats, lice,boils and all sorts of disease
Yersinia pestis is the bacillus that causes the Black Death (Bubonic Plague).
humans
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Yersinia pestis.
The Plague.
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