Bubonic plague is an often fulminant systemic zoonosis, caused by Yersinia pestis.
Conventional microbiology, bacterial population genetics, and genome sequence data, all …

Bacteriophages (phages) have been utilized for decades as a means for uniquely identifying
their target bacteria. Due to their inherent natural specificity, ease of use, and straightforward …

Background & Aims: The low calcium response V (LcrV) protein synthesized by gram-
negative, pathogenic yersiniae participates in bacterial evasion of the host's innate immune …

A novel type of magnetic-beads based magnetic biosensor is described for the detection of
Yersinia pestis. Experiments were performed with the antigen fraction F1 of these bacteria …

Yersinia pestis is a Gram-negative bacterium that is the causative agent of plague and is
widely recognized as a potential biological weapon. Due to the high fatality rate of plague …

Bacillus anthracis, Brucella spp., and Yersinia pestis are zoonotic pathogens and biowarfare-
or bioterrorism-associated agents that must be detected rapidly on-site from various samples …

Background Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, a zoonosis associated with
small mammals. Plague is a severe disease, especially in the pneumonic and septicemic …

Antibodies provide a sensitive indicator of proteins displayed by bacteria during sepsis.
Because signals produced by infection are naturally amplified during the antibody response …

CRISPR-associated proteins that produce a signal in the presence of a target nucleic acid
represent potentially powerful tools for diagnostics, but they also exhibit shortfalls that …

Biological weapons are highly contagious in nature, designed for warfare scenarios, and
cause mass destruction by hammering the economic, environmental, and societal attributes …