Scanning electron micrograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria in the foregut of the flea vector. Credit: NIAID.
Bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubo, of a plague patient, demonstrates the presence of the...
Scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, on proventricular spines of a Xenopsylla cheopis flea.
Yersinia Pestis Bacteria Causes Bubonic Plague In Animals And Humans And Usually Is Transmitted By The Bite Of Infected Rat Fleas. Illustration Based...
Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, Bacteria responsible for the plague. Seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, Bacteria responsible for the plague. Seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, Bacteria responsible for the plague. Seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
Bubonic plague smear demonstrating the presence of Yersinia pestis bacteria, 1965. Bipolar staining of a plague smear prepared from lymph aspirated...
The fingertips of this patient's right hand exhibited the signs of what is known as acral gangrene, after having contracted plague, caused by the...
The bubonic plague in Naples, Italy, 1656. It is estimated to have killed around 150 or half of the city's population. After a 17th century print by...
Morphological characteristic of a flea depicted in the digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic image, 2017. Image courtesy Centers for...
Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, Bacteria responsible for the plague. Seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
Engraving made c 1865 by Davenport after Cruikshank, showing men with torches in a churchyard, preparing to empty bodies into an open grave during...
Thrassis bacci johnsoni 38 days after being infected with Pasteurella pestis, 1981. Thrassis bacci, a ground squirrel flea found inhabiting the...
Photomicrograph of Giemsa stained lung tissue from a patient with fatal human plague, revealing pneumonia, and an abundance of Y. Pestis organisms....
The Plague Victims of Rome, after an etching by French artist Alphonse Legros, 1837 People stricken with the plague receive the last sacrament from a...
Colonial morphology of Gram-negative Yersinia pestis bacteria grown 72 hours on a medium of chocolate agar, 2010. Image courtesy Centers for Disease...
Morphological characteristic of a flea depicted in the digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic image, 2017. Image courtesy Centers for...
Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, Bacteria responsible for the plague. Seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
Engraving, possibly 19th century, showing a group of men with torches in a churchyard, preparing to empty the contents of a covered cart into the...
The Black Death. 14th century. Epidemic that ravaged the European continent. Figure of a woman hit by plague. Medieval Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dark stained bipolar ends of Yersinia pestis can clearly be seen in this Wright's stain of blood from a plague victim, 1993. The actual cause of the...
Bushy-tailed woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, is known to carry fleas inoculated with the plague bacteria Y. Pestis, 1993. All woodrat species are quick to...
This illustration depicts a photomicrograph of Yersinia pestis, sometimes referred to as Bacillus pestis, bacteria, 1975 Yersinia pestis causes...
An anteroposterior chest x-ray of a plague patient revealing bilateral infection, greater on the patient's left side, which was diagnosed as a case...
Colonial morphology of Gram-negative Yersinia pestis bacteria grown 48 hours on a medium of sheep's blood agar , 2010. Image courtesy Centers for...
Colonial morphology of Gram-negative Yersinia pestis bacteria grown 72 hours on a medium of sheep's blood agar , 2010. Image courtesy Centers for...
Morphological characteristic of a flea depicted in the digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic image, 2017. Image courtesy Centers for...
Morphological characteristics of an adult male Oropsylla Montana flea, close-up view, 2004. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control / DVBID, BZB,...
Yersinia pestis, formerly pasteurella pestis, Bacteria responsible for the plague. Seen under optical microscopy X 1000.
Ground squirrel died due to a Yersinia pestis plague infection, 1972. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control .
Prairie dog died due to a Yersinia pestis plague infection, 1972. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control .
Roof rat or black rat , a carrier of the Yersinia pestis plague bacterium, 1972. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control .
Norway rat , also known as the brown rat, house rat, and sewer rat, a carrier of the Yersinia pestis plague bacterium, 1972. Image courtesy Centers...
The plague is caused by infection with Yersinia Pestis, carried by fleas that infest rodents which then bite humans. The plague is thought to have...
