A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

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

Bubonic plague infects the lymph nodes, septicemic plague is in the blood, and pneumonic plague affects the lungs. Yersinia pestis itself is a bacterium with some deep historical roots and has ...

The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, | Genetics And Genomics ...

Bubonic plague causes painfully swollen lymph nodes that are most commonly found in the groin, armpit and neck, called buboes. It will often advance and turn into the other two forms of plague if ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to ... one to seven days after infection and include painful, swollen lymph nodes, called bubos, in the groin, armpit or neck areas as well as ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

A common symptom is swollen, painful lymph nodes, called buboes which give the most common form of the disease its name, bubonic plague. These manifest in the body as swelling in the armpits ...