Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

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Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

Scientists examined the genomes of two bedbug lineages to trace how their population sizes have changed over time ...

From advertising jewellery and appearing in flea circuses to spreading the plague, fleas have had a long, and often ...

Today the U.S. sees an average of seven human cases a year, mostly bubonic plague, which is contracted from flea bites and is marked by the development of swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes.

Bubonic plague is the form of Y pestis infection that is spread by fleas that live on small animals, mostly rodents such as the house and field rat. These rodents serve as reservoirs for the ...

Bubonic plague, which wreaked havoc during historic pandemics across Europe and Asia, is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium. It is transmitted by fleas often carried by rodents in the wild, ...

Bubonic plague causes painfully swollen lymph nodes ... The bacteria is transmitted through the bites of infected fleas, which spread it between rodents, pets and humans. People can also get ...