bacterium
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The team detected DNA from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for plague, in 18 of 46 individuals studied.
From Science Daily • Jun. 18, 2026
Infant botulism happens when swallowed spores from the bacterium infect a baby’s large intestine and make a toxin in it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026
We are also learning more about the evolutionary history of this devastating bacterium, which has haunted human societies since the Stone Age.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
At least for a while, though, as long as the patient is still alive, the cholera bacterium profits from being massively broadcast into the water supplies of its next victims.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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