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Disease associated with Yersinia pestis.
| Black Death is the European plague of the Middle Ages that is transmitted by the fleas of rats and otherwise is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. |
See also , , , and discussion of diseases associated with tissue invasion without toxin production.
For description of the sequencing of an historical Yersinia pestis strain, see . Note also the following videos for an introduction to Black Death and its impact:
Black death is also well associated with the term plague.