YERSINIA PESTIS

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Crosswords: YERSINIA PESTIS

Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. Credit: CDC.

Field workers are collecting trapped rodents in their native environment. Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. Credit: CDC.

Yersinia pestis grows well on most standard laboratory media, after 48-72 hours, grey-white to slightly yellow opaque raised, irregular "fried egg" morphology; alternatively colonies may have a "hammered copper" shiny surface. Credit: CDC.

This burrowing rodent of the genus Cynomys can harbor fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague. Credit: CDC.

This was the laboratory building in Shanghai, China where in 1936 Dr. Yersin first isolated and described in detail, Pasteurella pestis, the old term used for Yersinia pestis. Credit: CDC.

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is transmitted to humans by a rodent flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, or by handling infected animals. This technician is examining a flea under the microscope. Credit: CDC.

Technicians in a bacteriology laboratory in San Francisco, isolating Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis during a plague study in 1965. Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. Credit: CDC.

Millions of people in Europe died from plague in the Middle Ages, when human homes and places of work were inhabited by flea-infested rats carrying the Yersinia pestis bacterium. Credit: CDC.

Long-tailed weasels have been identified as carriers of fleas inoculated with Yersinia pestis, the plague bacterium. Credit: CDC.

X. cheopis is responsible for transmitting the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. The World Health Organization reports 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague every year, globally. Credit: CDC.

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Wayson stain of Yersinia pestis. (references)

A. By fleas that become infected with bacteria Yersinia pestis that cause plague. (references)

Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. (references)

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Expression using "YERSINIA PESTIS": or Yersinia pestis. Additional references.

Danish

pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

Dutch

Pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

French

Pasteurella pestis ou Yersinia pestis ou bacille de Yersin (or Yersinia pestis). (various references)

German

Pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), Kitasato Baz. (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), Bact.s.Bac.pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

Greek 

πανωλική παστερέλλα (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

Italian

Pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), o Yersinia pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

Pig Latin

yersiniaay estispay

Portuguese

"Pasteurella pestis". (various references)

Spanish

pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: antipyreses, antipyresis, patisseries, spessartine.

-4 letters: airinesses, antisepses, antisepsis, artinesses, asperities, epinasties, epistasies, eyestrains, inspissate, passerines, patisserie, patissiers, pistareens, pityriases, pityriasis, raptnesses, septenarii, sparsities, sparteines, synaeresis, yeastiness.

-5 letters: antipress, aperients, aptnesses, arsenites, assenters, epistases, epistasis, eyestrain, insisters, inspirits, irateness, passerine, pastiness, patissier, patnesses, pessaries, pinasters, pistareen, priestess, prissiest, pristanes, resinates, sanitises, sarsenets, satirises, sensitise.

+5 letters: expressionistically, hypersensitizations.