The Virtual Museum of Bacteria

Yersinia pestis

Written by Dr. T. M. Wassenaar Tuesday, 23 December 2008

View the organism: Yersinia pestis under the microscope (courtesy D. Kunkel)

Collection sites, home-pages

Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information

• General information on plague from CDC
• Fact sheet on Yersinia (Southern Illinois Uni)
• Plague in present-day Africa (Johannisburg Mail&Guardian)
• The life cycle of the Yersinia pestis (Pictures of Health)
• Traveller's health information on plague (CDC)
• General information on plague from CDC
• Y. pestis in bioterrorism (Texas Dept. Health)
• How does plague kill? (Newswise) and more about this topic (UK CHandler Med. Center News)
• Plague in cats and dogs (PetEducation)

There are many interesting and informative sites on Y. pestis and the Black Death (bubonic plague) on the web. Our museum contains a special issue on The Black Death. To get a taste for it, see this excellent site on the Plague (Uni chicago).

Lectures

• Excellent course on Y. pestis (NR Chamberlain)
• Lecture notes on pathogenic bacteria: Yersinia (uni Arizona)
• Brief overview of Y. pestis pathogenicity (Uni Georgia School of Vet. Med.)

Scientific papers

• Yersiniae: list of bacterial names (JP Euzeby)
• Laboratory safety sheet (Canadian Lab. Center Dis. Contr)
• Biosafety information (health Canada)
• Prevention of plague (MMWR)

Scientific links

• The genome sequencing project of Y. pestis (Sanger)
• Scientist identify new genes critical to transmission of bubonic plague (NIAID News)
• Plague vaccine (MMWR Weekly, CDC)
• Human plague in India 1994 (MMWR)
• Laboratory protocol for the identification of Y. pestis (CDC)
• Case definition of plague (CDC)

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999