Potential for rat plague from nonencapsulated variants of the plague bacillus (Yersinia pestis).
Potentials for oral and flea-borne transmission of nonencapsulated Y. pestis were demonstrated when 45% of rats that consumed infected meat died of plague and 22% of the rats that died of plague had bacteremia.
D000818:Animals; D007303:Insect Vectors; D051379:Mice; D010930:Plague / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission; D051381:Rats; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000382:microbiology; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000472:pathogenicity*