Plague caused by yersinia pestis is categorized as a rare disease. Hoc bacterium anno 1894 inter contagium pestis in hongcongum ab alexandro yersin medico helveticofrancico inventum. It causes the disease plague, which takes three main forms. Plague has killed an estimated 200 million humans throughout history, and. Yersinia pestis lehmann et neumann 1896 van loghem 1944. Yersinia pestis formerly pasteurella pestis is a gramnegative, nonmotile, rodshaped, coccobacillus bacterium, with no spores. These three forms of the plague have been responsible for a high death toll in many epidemics throughout human history. Hoc bacterium anno 1894 inter contagium pestis in hongcongum ab alexandro yersin medico helveticofrancico inventum est.
Yersinia enterocolitica es una bacteria del tipo cocobacilo, gram negativa, fermentativa. These diseases are believed to be the cause of the black death. The disease rarely occurs but when it strikes, the. The history of the plague and the research on the causative agent yersinia pestis. Presenta adems una cubierta glicoproteica antifagoctica conocida como antgeno capsular, su citoplasma.
This bacterium also causes other forms of plague septicemic plague and pneumonic plague. Yersinia pestis simple english wikipedia, the free. It was the disease behind the black death of the 14th century, when as much as onethird of. Yersinia pestis, a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas. Plaguehistory, yersinia pestis, zoonoses, south america, colombia. Peste y otras infecciones por yersinia enfermedades. It is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the oriental rat flea xenopsylla cheopis. Yersinia pestis, yersinia pseudotuberculosis y yersinia enterocolitica. Plague was the cause of some of the mostdevastating epidemics in history. Presenta adems una cubierta glicoproteica antifagoctica conocida como antgeno capsular, su. It has been identified as the infectious agent of bubonic plague.
Yersinia pestis is the cause of plague, an illness that may manifest in bubonic, pneumonic, or septicemic form. These diseases are believed to be the cause of the. Hilda mabel mejia f slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic and pneumonic plague in humans, persists in populations of wild rodents in many parts of the world and is transmitted primarily by the bites of infected fleas poland et al. Alexandre yersin y shibasuro kitasato en1894la primera epidemia fue en 542d.
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