Yersinia Pestis

  • Lungs Infected with Plague Bacteria Also Become Playgrounds for Other Microbes
    Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it’s too late for medical treatment. New research from the University ...More
    2 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Study Explains Plague's Rapid Evolution, Sheds Light on Fighting Deadly Diseases
    In the evolutionary blink of an eye, a bacterium that causes mild stomach irritation evolved into a deadly assassin responsible for the most devastating pandemics in human history. How did the mild-mannered Yersinia pseudotuberculosis become Yersinia pestis, more commonly ...More
    August 29, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • The Secrets of Plague are Revealed
    In work that is pushing the "diffraction barrier" associated with microscopic imaging of living cells, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque demonstrated the power of a new super-resolution microscopy technique called Stochastic Optical Reconstruction ...More
    March 9, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Host Genetics Plays Unexpected Role in Dance with Pathogen
    A new study suggests that differences in the host's genetics can make a big difference in susceptibility bacterial infection. In a study in the February 2011 Infection and Immunity, Virginia L. Miller of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and her collaborators ...More
    February 16, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Discovery Could Lead to Vaccines for Plague and Bacterial Pneumonias
    There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a weapon. "Governments remain concerned that ...More
    January 25, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Research Provides Detailed Reconstructions of Past Plagues
    A multi-national team of academic, government and industry scientists from Europe, China and the United States published data reconstructing the global evolutional history of devastating plague pandemics in unprecedented detail. This includes the notorious Black Death ...More
    November 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Link Between Infectious Disease Transmission and Climate Change is Examined
    An emerging body of evidence suggests that the changing global climate is already affecting infectious disease transmission patterns. As noted today in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), such changes are ...More
    November 20, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Plague Researcher Dies From Infection
    Reuters is reporting today that Malcolm Casadaban, a University of Chicago researcher who studied plague bacteria Yersinia pestis, had the bacterium in his blood when he died, according to university officials. To read further, CLICK HERE.  ...More
    September 21, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Superbug Risk to War Wounded
    Soldiers who survive severe injuries on battlefields such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan can be at risk from developing infections of their wounds with multidrug-resistant bacteria. The potentially lethal microbes include superbugs such as methicillin-resistant ...More
    March 30, 2009
    Posted in News
  • "Deadly Dozen" of Diseases Worsened by Climate Change
    Health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society today released a report that lists 12 pathogens that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, with potential impacts to both human and wildlife health and global economies.Called “The Deadly ...More
    October 7, 2008
    Posted in News
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