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The plague bacillus blocks the flea proventriculus.
Yersinia pestis induces, resists and then consolidates the formation of a bactericidal matrix in the flea’s proventriculus, which hastens its transmission to the mammalian host. In this fluorescence image, myriad of GFP+ Y. pestis are entrapped in a mass fulfilling the anterior spineless region and the spined region (that autofluoresces in yellow) of the proventriculus. Here, the mass also extends in the esophagus. Dewitte et al
Image Credit: Sebbane F
Citation: (2020) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image | Vol. 16(4) May 2020. PLoS Pathog 16(4): ev16.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.ppat.v16.i04
Published: May 1, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Yersinia pestis induces, resists and then consolidates the formation of a bactericidal matrix in the flea’s proventriculus, which hastens its transmission to the mammalian host. In this fluorescence image, myriad of GFP+ Y. pestis are entrapped in a mass fulfilling the anterior spineless region and the spined region (that autofluoresces in yellow) of the proventriculus. Here, the mass also extends in the esophagus. Dewitte et al
Image Credit: Sebbane F