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What is a yersinia?

What is a yersinia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
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In septicemic plague the bloodstream is so invaded by Yersinia that, in untreated cases, death can ensue even before the bubonic or pneumonic forms have had time to appear.
It may harbor a multitude of potentially dangerous bacteria, such as campylobacter, E coli, listeria, salmonella, yersinia, and brucella.
Coli, Enterovirus, Rhinovirus, Rotavirus, Salmonella, Shigella, Vibrio and Yersinia.
Microbiological analyses included enumeration of fecal coliforms, enterococci, Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, and coliphage.
The bacterium that causes the plague, Yersinia pestis, still exists, though the disease occurs rarely these days, and when it does it is seldom lethal.
New Zealand is facing the outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, which has been described as a food poisoning epidemic.

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