Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis
A scannin electron micrograph depictin a mass o Yersinia pestis bacteria in the foregut o an infectit flech
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kinrick:	Eubacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Cless:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Enterobacteriales
Faimily:	Enterobacteriaceae
Genus:	Yersinia
Species:	Y. pestis
Binomial name
Yersinia pestis (Lehmann & Neumann, 1896) van Loghem, 1944
Synonyms
Bacillus Bacille de la peste Yersin, 1894 Bacterium pestis Lehmann & Neumann, 1896 Pasteurella pestis (Lehmann & Neumann, 1896) Holland, 1920

Yersinia pestis^[1] (umwhile Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative, rod-shapit coccobacillus, a facultative anaerobic organism that can smit humans via the oriental ratton flech.^[2] It causes the deidly tribble cried bubonic plague (or "the plague" colloquially).^[3][4]