| alexandre yersin: pursuer of plague. | | 1989 | 2494200 |
| how the plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas were discovered: reminiscences from my years at the pasteur institute in paris. | | 1995 | 7644463 |
| alexandre yersin (1863-1943): discoverer of the plague bacillus, explorer and agronomist. | alexandre yersin was born in french switzerland and later took french nationality. while a medical student he worked in paris with emile roux to discover the exotoxin produced by the diphtheria bacillus. two years after graduation, he left paris for french indochina where he was the first european to explore and map the central highlands of vietnam. as a member of the french colonial health service he was sent to hong kong in 1894 to investigate the outbreak of bubonic plague. he isolated from b ... | 2008 | 18653838 |
| characterization of atypical isolates of yersinia intermedia and definition of two new biotypes. | the species yersinia intermedia is a member of the genus yersinia which belongs to the enterobacteriaceae family. this species is divided into eight biotypes, according to brenner's biotyping scheme. this scheme relies on five tests (utilization of simmons citrate and acid production from d-melibiose, d-raffinose, alpha-methyl-d-glucoside [alphamg], and l-rhamnose). the collection of the french yersinia reference laboratory (institut pasteur, paris, france) contained 44 strains that were origina ... | 2009 | 19494062 |