Disease (French: peste) which occurs due to infection with the bacterium Yersinia (Pasteurella) pestis that is transmitted by fleas (e.g., Xenopsylla cheopis) and was discovered in 1894 separately in Hong Kong by Yersin and Kitasato.
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Bible DJ, Chen TH (1976) Diagnosis of the plague: an analysis of the Yersin-Kitasato controversy. Bacteriol Reviews 40:633–651
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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Bubonic Plague. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_4562-1
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