But once RV 2039 resurfaced, Krause-Kyora and his team examined him for traces of bacteria or viruses. After studying DNA left in his skull and teeth, they were surprised to find Yersinia pestis ...

Scientists have discovered the DNA of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in a mummy from Egypt dating back approximately 3,300 ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious.

The bacteria behind the plague, Yersinia pestis, has been intensively studied using ancient DNA, with almost 200 genomes reconstructed from traces found in human remains. Yet we know much less ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis ... or pus from swollen lymph nodes to look for the Y. pestis bacteria. If you test positive for bubonic plague ...

A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis ... exactly how the bacterium infected individuals, it appears to have involved transmission via bites from fleas infected with Y. pestis (bubonic plague ...

Plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, which are typically spread via flea bites. The disease primarily affects rodents, but humans bitten by an infected flea can also become infected.