Yersinia pestis

Translingual

Proper noun

Yersinia pestis f

1. A taxonomic species within the family Enterobacteriaceae – plague bacillus, causative agent of the bubonic plague.

References

• Yersinia pestis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Yersinia pestis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Yersinia pestis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• List of sequenced bacterial genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia