Table of Contents

Plague: a disease changed the path of human civilization.- Discovery of the plague pathogen: lessons learned.- Taxonomy of Yersinia pestis.- Physiology of Yersinia pestis.- Ecology of Yersinia pestis and epidemiology of plague.- Genome and evolution of Yersinia pestis.- Pathology and pathogenesis of plague.- Genetic regulation of Yersinia pestis.- Yersinia pestis in the age of big data.- Immunology of Yersinia pestis infection.- Plague: clinics, diagnosis and treatment.- Plague vaccines: status and future.- Bacteriophages of Yersinia pestis.- Perspectives on Yersinia pestis: a model for studying zoonotic pathogens.

About the Author

Dr. Ruifu Yang is a professor at the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology and the Chief-Scientist for National Basic Research Program (973 Program). He serves as the vice president for the Chinese Society for Microbiology. His research focuses on bacterial pathogenesis using genomics- and proteomics-based techniques. He has published more than 100 articles on international well-known journals, such as Nature Genetics, PNAS, BMC Microbiology.  Dr. Andrey Anisimov is a professor and deputy director at State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Russia.