Among the seventeen species of the Gram-negative genus Yersinia, three have been shown
to be virulent and pathogenic to humans and animals—Y. enterocolitica, Y …

Plague—a deadly disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis—is still an international
public health concern. There are three main clinical forms: bubonic plague, septicemic …

Since its first identification in 1894 during the third pandemic in Hong Kong, there has been
significant progress of understanding the lifestyle of Yersinia pestis, the pathogen that is …

Streptococcus pyogenes causes 700 million human infections annually worldwide, yet,
despite a century of intensive effort, there is no licensed vaccine against this bacterium …

Airway epithelial cells are the first line of defense against invading microbes, and they
protect themselves through the production of carbohydrate and protein matrices …

Ail is an outer membrane protein from Yersinia pestis that is highly expressed in a rodent
model of bubonic plague, making it a good candidate for vaccine development. Ail is …

The Yersiniae are a group of Gram‐negative coccobacilli inhabiting a wide range of
habitats. The genus harbors three recognized human pathogens: Y. enterocolitica and Y …

During infection, Yersinia, a facultative intracellular bacterial species, exhibits the ability to
first invade host cells and then counteract phagocytosis by the host cells. During these two …

Yersinia pestis is one of the most virulent bacteria identified. It is the causative agent of
plague—a systemic disease that has claimed millions of human lives throughout history. Y …

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis replicates within mammalian tissues to form clustered bacterial
replication centers, called microcolonies. A subset of bacterial cells within microcolonies …