Glossary entry

Latin term or phrase:

Yersinia

English translation:

Yersinia pestis

Added to glossary by John Kinory (X)
Mar 15, 2002 22:22
22 yrs ago
Latin term

Yersinia

Non-PRO Latin to English Science plague
Yersinia petis
Proposed translations (English)
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Yersinia pestis

Related to 'pest'.

It's the bacterium that causes the Black Death - bubonic plague.

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Note added at 2002-03-15 22:51:15 (GMT)
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In English you can refer to it as the bubonic plague germ (or bacterium), but normally you stick with the Latin name.
Reference:

Medical translator

Peer comment(s):

agree Chris Rowson (X) : John obviously knows his stuff here, but can someone tell me how "Yersinia" comes to be considered Latin? With a "Y"?
6 hrs
Thanks - see Mirror's explanation
agree Antoinette Verburg : Chris, it's 'new' Latin. This bacterium was named after the bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943).
9 hrs
Thanks - obviously you know your stuff, too :-)
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yersinia petis


look at:
www.mvhs.fuhsd.org/~i-heng/Biowebsite/journals/vol7/1/e1.ht... - 9k

Possible biological agents include Bacillus anthracis, which cases anthrax, Yersinia
petis, which causes plague, and variola major (smallpox) [3]. These are ...


HTH

didi
Peer comment(s):

neutral Antoinette Verburg : 'petis' should be 'pestis'
9 hrs
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