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 ...

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 ...

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 ...