Which animal kingdom does the organism that causes plague belong to?

1. What type of organism causes plague?
2. What caused the plague in Europe?
3. Do rats carry the plague?
4. Is Yersinia pestis archaebacteria or eubacteria?
5. Is Yersinia pestis eukaryotic or prokaryotic?
6. What causes Yersinia pestis?
7. What was one result of the Black plague in England?
8. Which 2 plagues formed the Black Death?
9. Why were cats and dogs killed during the plague?
10. Did the black plague affect animals?
11. Is there a plague in California?
12. Is plague caused by protozoa?
13. What is the difference between bubonic pneumonic and septicemic plague?
14. What does Yersinia pseudotuberculosis cause?

What type of organism causes plague?

Plague is an infectious disease that affects animals and humans. It is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This bacterium is found in rodents and their fleas and occurs in many areas of the world, including the United States.

What caused the plague in Europe?

The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas.

Do rats carry the plague?

Plague is a highly infectious bacterial disease which primarily affects rodents. Humans and their pets (dogs, and espe- cially cats) can get plague if they visit or live in areas where wild rodents are natu- rally infected. The disease may also occur in rats that live in close contact with people.

Is Yersinia pestis archaebacteria or eubacteria?

Yersinia pestis is a eubacteria. Eubacteria are the true bacteria whereas archaebacteria are prokaryotic organisms which had a distinct evolutionary...

Is Yersinia pestis eukaryotic or prokaryotic?

Classification. Yersinia pestis is unicellular, placing it in the Bacteria domain. It is classified as a Prokaryotae because of its absence of a nuclear membrane and DNA that is not organized into chromosomes.

What causes Yersinia pestis?

The organism that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, lives in small rodents found most commonly in rural and semirural areas of Africa, Asia and the United States. The organism is transmitted to humans who are bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents or by humans handling infected animals.

What was one result of the Black plague in England?

If you caught the plague, you were almost certain to die: untreated, bubonic plague has an 80% mortality rate. By the time the plague moved on, Britain's population had reduced by between 30% and 40%. Up to 2 million people are thought to have died in England alone.

Which 2 plagues formed the Black Death?

Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis spread by fleas, but it can also take a secondary form where it is spread person-to-person contact via aerosols causing septicaemic or pneumonic plagues. The Black Death was the beginning of the second plague pandemic.

Why were cats and dogs killed during the plague?

4. How did killing cats and dogs cause the outbreak to spread further? Cats and dogs were predators of rats, so therefore there were less animals to kill the rats. This meant their population grew, so there were more rats to spread disease.

Did the black plague affect animals?

Many types of animals, such as rock squirrels, wood rats, ground squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks, mice, voles, and rabbits can be affected by plague.

Is there a plague in California?

Like many diseases, the Plague occurs naturally throughout the Western United States. It is especially common in Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico. The bacteria that causes the plague (Yersinia pestis) begins its transmission cycle with fleas.

Is plague caused by protozoa?

Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, can survive within the ubiquitous soil protozoan, the amoeba, by producing proteins that protect against the latter microbe's digestion.

What is the difference between bubonic pneumonic and septicemic plague?

The difference between the forms of plague is the location of infection; in pneumonic plague the infection is in the lungs, in bubonic plague the lymph nodes, and in septicemic plague within the blood. Diagnosis is by testing the blood, sputum, or fluid from a lymph node.

What does Yersinia pseudotuberculosis cause?

pseudotuberculosis causes self-limiting acute gastroenteritis and mesenteric lymphadenitis that mimics acute appendicitis. Enteritis is usually seen in children as opposed to the mesenteric adenitis seen in adults. [5] Symptoms include abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.