Sentences with phrase «causes bubonic»

Virgin first infected mice with the rodent equivalent of these two herpes strains and then exposed them to two types of bacteria: Listeria monocytogenes, a common cause of food poisoning, and Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.

Scientists are sequencing a range of genomes, for example, to reconstruct the evolution of Yersinia pestis, the microbe that causes bubonic plague.

Many kinds of bacteria create so - called pili fibers, including the Escherichia coli responsible for urinary tract infections and the Yersinia pestis bacteria that cause bubonic plague.

Molecular palaeopathologist Kirsten Bos found positive results for Yersinia pestis in the teeth of five out of 20 skeletons she examined, confirming this is the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague.

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Acroyear wrote that «NOTHING in all of human history, with perhaps exception the Bubonic plague -LSB-,] has caused more death than organized religion.»

And I'm also pretty sure that Acroyear's comment about organized religion being the cause of more human deaths than any other reason is absolutely correct (Bubonic plague included).

THE Black Death infamously wiped out about a third of Europe's population in the 14th century, but until now there was no firm evidence that bubonic plague was the cause.

(Both forms are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis; pneumonic plague develops when a person with bubonic plague is not treated, and the infection spreads to the lungs.)

The bacteria cause three different kinds of plague, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic.

They turned out to work similarly to genes in an unrelated bug, Yersinia pestis, the cause of bubonic plague.

DNA analysis suggests that the Black Death was caused by a strain of bubonic plague that is now probably extinct

bubonic plague A disease caused by the bacteriumYersinia pestis.

Lymph nodes are present throughout the body and the infection can cause them to swell into the horrible buboes, which gave the bubonic plague its name.

Many of these parasites can harbor diseases ranging from Lyme disease to the Bubonic plague — the same bacteria that caused «The Black Death» centuries ago.

Understandably, hotels require dogs to be flea - free, something we all aspire to anyway to keep dogs free of the many problems fleas can cause, everything from flea allergy dermatitis to anemia to Bubonic Plague (yep, there have been cases here in Texas the last few years).

Fleas cause several diseases, such as tapeworms, flea allergy dermatitis, and even can transmit the bubonic plague!

Also known as bubonic or septicemic plague, this highly contagious bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis is the «Black Death» responsible for killing one - third to one - half of the world's population in Europe and Asia in the late 1340s.

They carry diseases (such as deadly bubonic plague), cause weakness, allergic skin reactions, anemia and even death in weaker animals, if left untreated.

Fleas can cause itching and fatigue and can carry a host of diseases, including lyme disease and, of course, the bubonic plague (though it is highly unlikely today).