Yersinia
Yersinia is a genus of bacteria in the family Yersiniaceae. Yersinia species are Gram-negative, rod-shaped (bacillus) bacteria, a few micrometers long and fractions of a micrometer in diameter, and are facultative anaerobes. Some members of Yersinia are pathogenic in humans; in particular, Y. pestis is the causative agent of the plague. Rodents are the natural reservoirs of Yersinia; less frequently, other mammals serve as the host. Infection may occur either through blood (in the case of...
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Plague Bacillus
speciesYersinia pestis
Yersinia aldovae
speciesYersinia aldovae
Yersinia aleksiciae
speciesYersinia aleksiciae
Yersinia bercovieri
speciesYersinia bercovieri
Yersinia mollaretii
speciesYersinia mollaretii
Yersinia frederiksenii
speciesYersinia frederiksenii
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
speciesYersinia pseudotuberculosis
Yersinia entomophaga
speciesYersinia entomophaga
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 464252.