The pathogen that causes this disease secretes the antigens F1 and V and was codiscovered by Kitasato Shibasaburo.
The pathogen that causes this disease secretes the antigens F1 and V and was codiscovered by Kitasato Shibasaburo. This disease's pathogen uses a type III secretion system to deliver its effectors called Yops. It is endemic to prairie dogs in the western US. The two other forms of this disease are septicemic and pneumonic. The bacterium that causes this disease, (*) Yersinia pestis, forms a biofilm in the esophagus of its animal vector. The best known form of this disease gets its name from sufferers' swollen lymph nodes on the armpits or groin, which is typically transmitted by insect bite. For 10 points, name this disease transmitted by the rat flea, which killed a third of Europe during the Middle Ages.
The pathogen that causes this disease secretes the antigens F1 and V and was codiscovered by Kitasato Shibasaburo.
bubonic plague [or Black Death; or septicemic plague; or pneumonic plague; prompt on Yersinia pestis]