Yersinia pestis: the natural history of plague

R Barbieri, M Signoli, D Chevé… - Clinical microbiology …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

A scoping review of the role of wildlife in the transmission of bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial resistance to the food chain

J Greig, A Rajić, I Young… - Zoonoses and Public …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife can contribute to environmental contamination with bacterial pathogens and their
transfer to the human food chain. Global usage and frequent misuse of antimicrobials …

No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe

NC Stenseth, Y Tao, C Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Caused by Yersinia pestis, plague ravaged the world through three known pandemics: the
First or the Justinianic (6th–8th century); the Second (beginning with the Black Death during …

Climate-driven marmot-plague dynamics in Mongolia and China

L Xu, Q Wang, R Yang, D Ganbold, N Tsogbadrakh… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The incidence of plague has rebounded in the Americas, Asia, and Africa alongside rapid
globalization and climate change. Previous studies have shown local climate to have …

Wet climate and transportation routes accelerate spread of human plague

L Xu, LC Stige, KL Kausrud… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Currently, large-scale transmissions of infectious diseases are becoming more closely
associated with accelerated globalization and climate change, but quantitative analyses are …

Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change

CJ Carlson, SN Bevins, BV Schmid - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After several pandemics over the last two millennia, the wildlife reservoirs of plague
(Yersinia pestis) now persist around the world, including in the western United States …

Zoonoses as ecological entities: a case review of plague

CG Zeppelini, AMP de Almeida… - PLoS neglected …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
As a zoonosis, Plague is also an ecological entity, a complex system of ecological
interactions between the pathogen, the hosts, and the spatiotemporal variations of its …

Plague prevention and therapy: perspectives on current and future strategies

R Rosario-Acevedo, SS Biryukov, JA Bozue, CK Cote - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plague, caused by the bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis, is a vector-borne disease that has
caused millions of human deaths over several centuries. Presently, human plague infections …

Molecular survey of tularemia and plague in small mammals from Iran

E Mostafavi, A Ghasemi, M Rohani… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Plague and tularemia are zoonoses and their causative bacteria are circulating
in certain regions of Iran. This study was conducted to investigate potential disease …

Revealing the real‐time diversity and abundance of small mammals by using an Intelligent Animal Monitoring System (IAMS)

X Yang, L Han, Y Wang, C Guo, Z Zhang - Integrative Zoology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is challenging to reveal the real‐time spatio‐temporal change of diversity and abundance
of animals in natural systems by using traditional methods. The rapid advancement of new …