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Possibly of interest to some: the bacteria that caused the various Black Plague pandemics over time is in the same family: yersinia pestis.
by MrWiffles 5y ago
Possibly of interest to some: the bacteria that caused the various Black Plague pandemics over time is in the same family: yersinia pestis.
- Vetch 5y agoThe paper notes as much: > Since Y. pseudotuberculosis is genetically very similar to Y. pestis, we hypothesised that NOD2 mutations may have provided a survival advantage to mutation carriers in the past during plague epidemics. As supposed, the current frequencies of CD-associated NOD2 mutations [ie, in the offspring of plague survivors] are correlated with the intensity of past Y. pestis epidemics in European and Mediterranean countries.