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This image depicts a domesticated cat, which had succumbed to plague, having been infected with the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Note the dried blood and sputum that this cat had expelled prior to its death from pneumonic plague.
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Biological Sciences
Environment and Public Health
Public Health
Public Health Practice
Communicable Disease Control
Pest Control
Rodent Control
Chemicals and Drugs
Chemical Actions and Uses
Specialty Uses of Chemicals
Pesticides
Rodenticides
Toxic Actions
Pesticides
Rodenticides
Diseases
Animal Diseases
Rodent Diseases
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
Bacterial Infections
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Enterobacteriaceae Infections
Yersinia Infections
Plague
Organisms
Animals
Chordata
Vertebrates
Mammals
Carnivora
Cats
Invertebrates
Arthropods
Insects
Fleas
Bacteria
Gram-Negative Bacteria
Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods
Enterobacteriaceae
Yersinia
Yersinia pestis
Proteobacteria
Gammaproteobacteria
Enterobacteriaceae
Yersinia
Yersinia pestis
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