Yersinia

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Characteeristics?

gram negative causing bubonic plague

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What kind of stain gives characteristic results with Yersinia?

bipolar staining with special stains ( Giemsa)

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What animals carry the disease? How is it transmitted?

  • carried through rodent populations and by flea bites

  • transmitted = bite will infect macrophages 

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Symptoms of Bubonic plague 

  • fever, shills, fatigue

  • severely swollen lymph nodes = buboes 

  • bacteria enters blood in massive numbers 

  • rashes turn into necrotic/ blacken 

  • can migrate into lungs = pneumonia. = pneumonic plague = highly contagious 

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is it ever contagious form person to person?

Aerosol forms can cause pneumonic plague