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SUBMITTER: Dean KR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819418 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180116 6
Plague, caused by the bacterium <i>Yersinia pestis</i>, can spread through human populations by multiple transmission pathways. Today, most human plague cases are bubonic, caused by spillover of infected fleas from rodent epizootics, or pneumonic, caused by inhalation of infectious droplets. However, little is known about the historical spread of plague in Europe during the Second Pandemic (14-19th centuries), including the Black Death, which led to high mortality and recurrent epidemics for hun ...[more]