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Pestis meaning

Plague.

Synonyms of Pestis

plague pestilence pest epidemic disease

Related words

Other words often associated with Pestis or its synonyms:

blighter swarm tormenter influence tragedy brute calamity animal infestation annoyance tormentor canker

Using Pestis

  • The main meaning on this page is: Plague.
  • Useful related words include: plague, pestilence, pest, epidemic disease.
  • In the example corpus, pestis often appears in combinations such as: yersinia pestis, of pestis, pestis is.

Context around Pestis

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

yersinia 8×

Often after:

strains 2× bacterium 1× strain 1× genome 1×

Sentence patterns with Pestis

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

bacillus yersinia pestis 1× bacterium yersinia pestis is the 1× day y pestis strains orientalis 1× death yersinia pestis which is 1× enterocolitica y pestis is host 1× from yersinia pestis has been 1× identify y pestis 1× maintain y pestis 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a child bitten 1× an anti f1 1× class iv ac 1× dna taken from 1× genome the complete 1× he and french 1×

Common sentence endings:

and south america 1× bacillus yersinia pestis 1× for plague immunization 1× has been reported 1× identify y pestis 1× immune signaling e 1×

Words around Pestis

Just before it in the word index:

pestilential 3 pestilent 4 pestilences 6 pestilence 41 pesticides 339 pesticide 201

Just after it in the word index:

pestle 27 pestles 3 pesto 63 peston 16 pests 321 pesukot 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaj 27 aal 27 aalto 27 abn 27 abo 27 absalom 27

Corpus analysis for Pestis

  • In this selection, "pestis" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, yersinia, strains, bacterium and strain stand out and add context to how "pestis" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include bacillus yersinia pestis and bacterium yersinia pestis is the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "pestis" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with pestis

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

A child bitten by a flea infected with the Yersinia pestis bacterium. (12 words)

In addition, some Y. pestis strains are capable of interfering with immune signaling (e. (14 words)

Like Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. enterocolitica, Y. pestis is host to the plasmid pCD1. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Genome The complete genomic sequence is available for two of the three subspecies of Y. pestis: strain KIM (of biovar Y. p. medievalis), citation and strain CO92 (of biovar Y. p. orientalis, obtained from a clinical isolate in the United States). (41 words)

These were found to be ancestral to modern isolates of the present-day Y. pestis strains 'Orientalis' and 'Medievalis', suggesting that these variant strains (which are now presumed to be extinct) may have entered Europe in two waves. (38 words)

DNA taken from 25 skeletons from the 14th century found in London have shown the plague is a strain of Y. pestis that is almost identical to that which hit Madagascar in 2013. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

Y. pestis, a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family, has caused the bite to become ulcerated Transmission of Y. pestis to an uninfected individual is possible by any of the following means.

Tests on the DNA revealed the presence of Yersinia pestis, which is documented to have reached in the spring of 1349.

The plague was caused by the same bacteria at the Black Death, Yersinia pestis, which is usually transmitted through the bite of an infected rat flea.

A child bitten by a flea infected with the Yersinia pestis bacterium.

An anti-F1 serology test can differentiate between different species of Yersinia, and Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can be used to identify Y. pestis.

Class IV AC-IV was first reported in the bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila, and the structure of the AC-IV from Yersinia pestis has been reported.

DNA taken from 25 skeletons from the 14th century found in London have shown the plague is a strain of Y. pestis that is almost identical to that which hit Madagascar in 2013.

Genome The complete genomic sequence is available for two of the three subspecies of Y. pestis: strain KIM (of biovar Y. p. medievalis), citation and strain CO92 (of biovar Y. p. orientalis, obtained from a clinical isolate in the United States).

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He and French researcher Alexandre Yersin went to Hong Kong in 1894, where; Kitasato confirmed Yersin's discovery that the bacterium Yersinia pestis is the agent of the plague.

In addition, some Y. pestis strains are capable of interfering with immune signaling (e.

In the urban and sylvatic (forest) cycles of Y. pestis, most of the spreading occurs between rodents and fleas.

In the western United States, several species of rodents are thought to maintain Y. pestis.

Like Y. pseudotuberculosis and Y. enterocolitica, Y. pestis is host to the plasmid pCD1.

The epidemiological use of the term plague is currently applied to any severe bubo inflammation resulting from an infection with Y. pestis.

The live attenuated vaccine-containing strain Yersinia pestis EV is used for plague immunization.

These were found to be ancestral to modern isolates of the present-day Y. pestis strains 'Orientalis' and 'Medievalis', suggesting that these variant strains (which are now presumed to be extinct) may have entered Europe in two waves.

The study also found that there were two previously unknown but related clades (genetic branches) of the Y. pestis genome associated with medieval mass graves.

This led to the establishment of a Public Health Department there which undertook some leading-edge research on plague transmission from rat fleas to humans via the bacillus Yersinia pestis.

This species of flea is the primary vector for the transmission of Yersinia pestis, the organism responsible for bubonic plague in most plague epidemics in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Together, these plasmids, and a pathogenicity island called HPI, encode several proteins that cause the pathogenesis, for which Y. pestis is famous.

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Common combinations with pestis

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "pestis" in a sentence?
An example: "Y. pestis, a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family, has caused the bite to become ulcerated Transmission of Y. pestis to an uninfected individual is possible by any of the following means." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "pestis" from authentic English texts.
What does "pestis" mean?
Pestis means: Plague.
What are synonyms of "pestis"?
Common synonyms of "pestis" include: plague, pestilence, pest, epidemic disease.
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