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CSP: etiologic agent of plague in humans, rats, ground squirrels, and other rodents.,MSH: The etiologic agent of PLAGUE in man, rats, ground squirrels, and other rodents.,NCI: A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, positive for coagulase and fibrinolysin and negative for urease, indole, ornithine decarboxylase, oxidase, and pyrazinamidase. Some strains are able to ferment melibiose but none can metabolize sorbose, rhamnose, cellobiose, sucrose, or sorbitol. Y. pestis is found in rodents and fleas and is a pathogen that can cause pneumonic, septicemic and bubonic plague types in humans.,NCI: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Yersinia pestis.
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