Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year globally, 10 to 15 of them in the western United ...

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Plague is a potentially lethal infectious disease that is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis that live in some ... contact with an infected animal's blood. The current alert in China ...

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 ...

Staphylococcus epidermidisis gamma-hemolytic. Often when inoculating a BAP to observe hemoloysis patterns, investigators will also stab several times through the agar using an inoculating loop. This ...

This is in contrast to Streptococcus species, whose growth is selected against by this high salt agar (plate on the right in the picture below). The differential ingredient in MSA is the sugar ...

Yersinia pestis is spread when fleas drink the blood of infected rats. Once the infected rats die, the fleas move on to find a new host. An infected flea's bite passes the bacterium to their new host.

Bubonic, which makes the glands in the neck, armpits and groin swell and ooze pus and blood. It usually kills ... The bacteria was named after him; ‘Yersinia pestis.’ Although doctors in ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.

Acute anemia can develop due to a rapid drop in red blood cells (RBCs) after losing blood. The more blood a person loses, the more severe the anemia becomes. It usually occurs due to hemorrhage or ...

Eileen Agar, also known as Eileen Forrester Agar, was a British artist associated with Surrealism. She was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and passed away in 1991 in London. Her work in ...