A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body during pneumonic plague. During the 14th through 16th centuries, Y. pestis caused a pandemic of plague that killed a third of ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying ... such as the lungs - resulting in pneumonic plague - or the bloodstream, causing septicaemic plague.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe ... plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

Over 80% of plague cases in the U.S. have been the bubonic form, according to the CDC, though the pneumonic form is ... about ...

This is pneumonic plague, which is transmitted person to ... The bubonic plague spread about 3 miles per day during the Middle Ages, according to The National Library of Medicine, but it’s ...

As noted above, the licensing of pneumonic plague vaccines will rely on efficacy data from animal studies and safety data from human trials. In addition, licensure will require assays that bridge ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...