Flea bacteria
9 May 2019 by Evoluted New Media
This digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow Yersinia pestis bacteria.
Produced by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow,?Yersinia pestis?bacteria, that had gathered on the proventricular spines of a?Xenopsylla cheopis?flea. The?Y. pestisbacterium is the pathogen that causes bubonic plague.
