Yersinia pestis is a bacterium; it is the infectious agent of bubonic plague. It was discovered simultaneously by Shibasaburo Kitasato and [Alexandre Yersin]? in 1894. |
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]?.