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yer·sin·i·a   (yər-sĭn'ē-ə)   
n.   pl. yer·sin·i·ae (-ē-ē')
A gram-negative bacillus of the genus Yersinia that causes various animal diseases.

[From New Latin Yersinia, genus name, after Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin (1863-1943), Swiss-born French bacteriologist.]
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Main Entry: yer·sin·ia
Pronunciation: y&r-'sin-E-&
Function: noun
1 cap : a genus of gram-negative bacteria of thefamily Enterobacteriaceae that includes several important pathogens (as the plague bacterium, Y. pestis) affecting animals and humans and formerly included in the genus Pasteurella—see PLAGUE 2
2 : any bacterium of the genus Yersinia
Yerásin /yer-san/, Alexandre–Émile–John (1863–1943), French bacteriologist. Yersin studied bacteriology under Émile Roux in Paris and RobertKoch in Berlin. Later, in Hong Kong, he and Kitasato Shibasaburo independently discovered the plague bacillus at about the same time. In 1944 the genus Yersinia containing the plague bacillus(Y. pestis) was named after Yersin.
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yersinia yer·sin·i·a (yər-sĭn'ē-ə)
n.
A bacterium of the genus Yersinia.

Yersinia n.
A genus of gram-negative parasitic bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae that cause various diseases in humans and animals.

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