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YERSINIA

Specialty Definition: YERSINIA

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Health

A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic rod- to coccobacillus-shaped bacteria that occurs in a broad spectrum of habitats. (references)

Medicine

A genus of nonmotile, ovoid or rod-shaped, nonencapsulated, gram-negative aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria in the family of Enterobacteriaceae. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Yersinia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Yersinia is a genus of bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Some members of Yersinia are pathogenic in humans.

Species include Yersinia pestis, Y. entercolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis.

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

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Crosswords: YERSINIA

Specialty definitions using "YERSINIA": Arthritis, Reactive, avian pseudotuberculosiscanary choleraFood-borne illnessespestis bubonica, Plague Vaccine, pseudotuberculosis, pseudo-tuberculosisYersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia Infections, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections. (references)

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Commercial Usage: YERSINIA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bioterrorism of Plague Yersinia Infections: Index of New Information and Guide-Book for Consumers, Reference and Research (reference)

  • Contribution to Microbiology and Immunology: Volume 13: Yersinia (6th International Symposium on Yersinia, Rome, September 1994) (reference)

  • Host-Parasite Relationships and the Yersinia Model (Springer Series in Molecular Biology) (reference)

  • Plague and Other Yersinia Infections (reference)

  • Yersinia Enterocolitica (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: YERSINIA

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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.

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.

Yersinia (Pasteurella) pestis causes plague in animals and humans. People usually get plague from being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium, or by handling an infected animal. 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

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Health

Wayson stain of Yersinia pestis. (references)

Yersiniosis is an infectious disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Yersinia. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: YERSINIA

"YERSINIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "YERSINIA" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: YERSINIA

Expressions using "YERSINIA": or Yersinia pestis Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Yersinia enterocolitica Yersinia infection Yersinia Infections Yersinia pestis Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YERSINIA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

yersinia pestis

49

yersinia

30

yersinia enterocolitica

14

yersinia pseudotuberculosis

7

microbiology yersinia

2

pestis picture yersinia

2
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Modern Translation: YERSINIA

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

Danish

  

yersiniose (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), pasteurella pseudotubercuklosis (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis), pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

yersiniose (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis), Pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

   

French

  

Yersinia. (various references)

   

German

  

Yersiniose (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis), Pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), Malassez-Vignal Baz. (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis), Kitasato Baz. (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), Bact.s.Bac.pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), Bac.s.Streptobac.s.Corynebact.s.Bact.pseudot.rodentium s.zoogloeicae (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πανωλική παστερέλλα (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis), υερσινίωση (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), λοίμωξη από υερσινία (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), ψευδοφυματιώδης παστερέλλα (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Yersinia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yersiniaay

   

Portuguese

  

iersiniose (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), "Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis", "Pasteurella pestis". (various references)

   

Spanish

  

yersiniosis (Yersinia infection, yersiniosis), pasteurella pseudotuberculosa (Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis), pasteurella pestis (or Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella pestis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: YERSINIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: raisiny, senarii.

-2 letters: arisen, arsine, raisin, resiny, senary, yearns.

-3 letters: airns, anise, arise, ayins, earns, eyras, nares, naris, nears, nisei, rains, rainy, raise, ranis, reins, resay, resin, rinse, risen, saner, sarin, sayer, serai, serin, siren, snare, syren, yarns, yeans, yearn, years.

-4 letters: aery, ains, airn, airs, airy, anes, anis, ares, arse, ayes, ayin, earn.

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

+2 letters: gyniatries.

 

+3 letters: antipyresis, antipyrines, revisionary, stipendiary, vineyardist.

 

+4 letters: aminopyrines, antihysteric, antipyretics, despairingly, diversionary, hyperkinesia, increasingly, karyokinesis, laryngitides, previsionary, redisplaying, transitively, tyrannicides, universality, vineyardists.

 

+5 letters: antihysterics, antisymmetric, digressionary, discretionary, extrinsically, ferricyanides, hyperkinesias, hypersalinity, impersonality, indescribably, interstratify, investigatory, mensurability, ministerially, pharyngitides, pyridoxamines, reasonability, reclassifying, residentially, saprogenicity, sinterability, syringomyelia.

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INDEX

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


  

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