Elisabeth Carniel

TL;DR: Analysis of the population genetic structure of Y. pestis and the two other pathogenic Yersinia species shows consistent with previous inferences that Antiqua caused a plague pandemic in the sixth century, Medievalis caused the Black Death and subsequent epidemics during the second pandemic wave, and Orientalis cause the current Plague pandemic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss ways in which PAIs contribute to the pathogenic potency of bacteria, and the idea that genetic entities similar to genomic islands may also be present in the genomes of eukaryotes.

TL;DR: The complete genomic sequence of Y. pseudotuberculosis IP32953 is reported and provides a sobering example of how a highly virulent epidemic clone can suddenly emerge from a less virulent, closely related progenitor.

TL;DR: An evolutionary tree is proposed for these populations, rooted on Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, which invokes microevolution over millennia, during which enzootic pestoides isolates evolved and led to populations that are more frequently associated with human disease.

TL;DR: The authors argue that plague should be taken much more seriously by the international health community and the government should take plague more seriously.