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 …

Yersinia pestis, the bacterial causative agent of plague, remains an important threat to
human health. Plague is a rodent-borne disease that has historically shown an outstanding …

Individual differences in contact rate can arise from host, group and landscape
heterogeneity and can result in different patterns of spatial spread for diseases in wildlife …

Yellow fever virus (YFV) is the etiological agent of yellow fever (YF), an acute hemorrhagic
vector-borne disease with a significant impact on public health, is endemic across tropical …

Rapid, sensitive, accurate and portable diagnostics are a mainstay of modern medicine.
Tuberculosis is a disease that has been with us since time immemorial and, despite the fact …

Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, is enzootic in many parts of the world within
wild rodent populations and is transmitted by different flea vectors. The ecology of plague is …

The Justinianic Plague, the first part of the earliest of the three plague pandemics, has
minimal historical documentation. Based on the limited primary sources, historians have …

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 …

Identifying key reservoirs for zoonoses is crucial for understanding variation in incidence.
Plague re-emerged in Mahajanga, Madagascar in the 1990s but there has been no …

Yersinia pestis can be transmitted by fleas during the first week after an infectious blood
meal, termed early-phase or mass transmission, and again after Y. pestis forms a cohesive …