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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.
Yersinia species are also members of the Enterobacteriacea, and are capable of psychrotrophic growth.
Yersinia infection most often occurs from eating raw or undercooked pork products, such as chitterlings.
It may harbor a multitude of potentially dangerous bacteria, such as campylobacter, E coli, listeria, salmonella, yersinia, and brucella.
No, not Ebola, but rather infection with the dreaded bacterium, Yersinia pestis.
The ancestor of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis causes mild stomach disease.

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