Tannerella forsythia

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Scanning electron microscope image of Clostridium difficile. From: Bioquell.com [2]

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Etiology/Bacteriology

Taxonomy

| Domain = Bacteria | Phylum = Proteobacteria | Class = Gammaproteobacteria | Order = Enterobacteriales | Family = Enterobacteriaceae | Genus = Yersinia | species = Yersinia pestis

NCBI: Taxonomy Genome: Genome

Pathogenesis

Epidemiology

From: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_distribution_of_plague_1998.PNG

References

1. Gross L. How the plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas were discovered: reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1995 15;92(17):7609-11.

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Plague: Ecology and Transmission. [<http://www.cdc.gov/plague/transmission/>].

Created by {Krishna Manohar}, students of Tyrrell Conway at the University of Oklahoma.