Yersinia pestis
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Yersinia pestis[1] (umwhile Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative, rod-shapit coccobacillus, a facultative anaerobic organism that can smit humans via the oriental ratton flech.[2] It causes the deidly tribble cried bubonic plague (or "the plague" colloquially).[3][4]
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Yersinia pestis | |
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A scannin electron micrograph depictin a mass o Yersinia pestis bacteria in the foregut o an infectit flech | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Kinrick: | Eubacteria |
Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
Cless: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Enterobacteriales |
Faimily: | Enterobacteriaceae |
Genus: | Yersinia |
Species: | Y. pestis |
Binomial name | |
Yersinia pestis (Lehmann & Neumann, 1896) van Loghem, 1944 | |
Synonyms | |
Bacillus
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