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**Cause of bubonic plague in humans, transmitted via fleas from infected rats
**Not a significant veterinary disease
**Disease in rats and other rodents similar to the disease in humans
**Bubonic form can lead to the pneumonic form, which is highly contagious and usually fatal
**Humans and domestic and wild animals incidental hosts
**Plague has rarely been reported in dogs, cats, camels, elephants, deer
**Cats can acquire the disease from ingesting dead rodents, and show lymphadenopathy and abscesses
**Fever, lethargy, swelling and abscessation of lymph nodes particularly in head and neck region
**50% mortality if not treated
**Possesses 3 plasmids, 2 of which are unique to this species; these encode an endotoxin, and coagulase and fibrinolytic activity[[Category:Yersinia species]]
**Not a significant veterinary disease
**Disease in rats and other rodents similar to the disease in humans
**Bubonic form can lead to the pneumonic form, which is highly contagious and usually fatal
**Humans and domestic and wild animals incidental hosts
**Plague has rarely been reported in dogs, cats, camels, elephants, deer
**Cats can acquire the disease from ingesting dead rodents, and show lymphadenopathy and abscesses
**Fever, lethargy, swelling and abscessation of lymph nodes particularly in head and neck region
**50% mortality if not treated
**Possesses 3 plasmids, 2 of which are unique to this species; these encode an endotoxin, and coagulase and fibrinolytic activity[[Category:Yersinia species]]