Bacterium
yersinia pestis
Subclass of:
Yersinia
Definitions related to yersinia pestis:
  • A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, positive for coagulase and fibrinolysin and negative for urease, indole, ornithine decarboxylase, oxidase, and pyrazinamidase. Some strains are able to ferment melibiose but none can metabolize sorbose, rhamnose, cellobiose, sucrose, or sorbitol. Y. pestis is found in rodents and fleas and is a pathogen that can cause pneumonic, septicemic and bubonic plague types in humans.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Yersinia pestis.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • Etiologic agent of plague in humans, rats, ground squirrels, and other rodents.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The etiologic agent of PLAGUE in man, rats, ground squirrels, and other rodents.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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