Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium ...

Background Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harms worldwide, but rigorous estimates for total burden are lacking. We previously estimated diagnostic ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

Though most associate plague with a singular moment in medieval Europe, researchers say the bacteria has been infecting ...

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...