Tag: Y. pestis

While studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for epidemics of plague such as the Black Death, researchers have found a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month approved Avelox (moxifloxacin) to treat patients with plague, a rare and ...

iBio, Inc. today announced it received notice from the European Patent Office that the opposition period expired for a bio-defense ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking information regarding efforts to develop therapeutic products that demonstrate activity ...

Yersinia pestis. Credit: NIAID For decades, scientists have thought the bacteria that cause the bubonic plague ...

The microbes that call the New York City subway system home are mostly harmless, but include samples of disease-causing bacteria ...

The U.S. Medical Research Institute of lnfectious Diseases (USAMRIID) has announced intentions to award a new contract to George Mason ...

The DHS Directorate of Science and Technology, Chemical and Biological Defense Division (CBD) has awarded a sole source contract to Tetracore ...

Dangerous new pathogens such as the Ebola virus invoke scary scenarios of deadly epidemics, but even ancient scourges such as ...

The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is seeking firms capable of providing research services to profile the ...

Deadliest, rarest form of plague contracted near Denver | CDC halts hazardous biomaterial transfers | Ebola's spread sparks debate on ...

A new study suggests that people who survived the medieval mass-killing plague known as the Black Death lived significantly longer ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is interested in supporting the advanced development of promising integrated clinical ...

Scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, on proventricular spines of a Xenopsylla cheopis flea. Credit: NIAID ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists are continuing to unravel the molecular changes that underlie one of the world's most infamous and deadliest ...

The Virology Division at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Md. has a ...

Image: Yersinia pestis/NIAID The Medical Countermeasure Systems (MCS) Joint Acquisition Vaccine Program (JVAP) Biological Surety Agents and Toxins (BSAT) program ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking information from diagnostics product developers interested in supporting the ...

Paul Gaylord, a retired man living in rural Oregon, recently shared details from his horrific, near-death experience after being infected ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that two of the world’s most devastating plagues – the plague of Justinian ...