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YERSINIA PESTIS

Specialty Definition: YERSINIA PESTIS

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Health

The etiologic agent of plague in man, rats, ground squirrels, and other rodents. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Yersinia pestis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Yersinia pestis is a species of bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae, genus Yersinia; it is the infectious agent of bubonic plague. It was discovered simultaneously by Shibasaburo Kitasato and Alexandre Yersin in 1894.

The bacillus was originally called Pasteurella pestis, and was renamed after Alexandre Yersin.

see also Great Plague

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Yersinia pestis."

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Crosswords: YERSINIA PESTIS

Specialty definitions using "YERSINIA PESTIS": pestis bubonica, Plague Vaccine. (references)

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Photo Album: YERSINIA PESTIS

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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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: YERSINIA PESTIS

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Health

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: YERSINIA PESTIS

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YERSINIA PESTIS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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yersinia pestis

49
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Modern Translation: YERSINIA PESTIS

Language Translations for "YERSINIA PESTIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: YERSINIA PESTIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-i-n-p-r-s-s-s-t-y"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-i-n-p-r-s-s-s-t-y"
 

+5 letters: expressionistically, hypersensitizations.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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