Word: yersinia
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...environmental tests, which have discounted such possible causes as salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria, were administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, S.C., and the Food and Drug Administration in Washington...
Thus far, health officials have found no common origin of the mysterious illness. However, incoming tests from patient cultures have now ruled out salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria as a potential cause of the illness...
...bubonic plague comes from a bacterium called yersinia pestis which lives in rats. In a dense population of humans and rats, fleas can transfer the bacteria through their bites between the species...