Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis is a bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae; 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]?.

Yersinia pestis is related to [Yersinia pseudotuberculosis]? and [Yersinia enterocolitica]?.