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)
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


