How the plague bacillus and its transmission through fleas were discovered: reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Aug 15;92(17):7609-11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.17.7609.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Autobiography
  • Biography
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Academies and Institutes / history
  • Animals
  • History, 20th Century
  • History, Medieval
  • History, Modern 1601-
  • Insect Vectors*
  • Paris
  • Plague / history*
  • Plague / transmission
  • Rodentia
  • Siphonaptera*
  • Switzerland
  • Yersinia pestis / isolation & purification*

Personal name as subject

  • Y Yerkin
  • P L Simond
  • L Gross