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 ...

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

A multiyear investigation pieced together ancient DNA from strains of the plague, bringing together researchers from across ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three ...

A new scientific discovery has uncovered secrets of the Black Death plague that is thought to have killed tens of millions ...

Research has revealed that the evolution of a single gene in Yersinia pestis - the bacterium that causes bubonic plague - ...

Researchers found that changes in the pla gene copy number in Yersinia pestis affected plague virulence and host survival.