2006-07-20 23:52:36 · 9 answers · asked by ralark2002 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
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How come Pasteurella pestis (Black Plague)got changed to Yersinia pestis?
2015-08-18 05:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y. pestis was discovered in 1894 by Swiss/French physician and bacteriologist from the Pasteur Institute, Alexandre Yersin, during an epidemic of plague in Hong-Kong. Yersin was a member of the Pasteur school of thought. Shibasaburo Kitasato, a German-trained Japanese bacteriologist who practiced Koch's methodology was also engaged at the time in finding the causative agent of plague. However, it was Yersin who actually linked plague with Yersinia pestis. Originally named Pasteurella pestis, the organism was renamed in 1967
2006-07-21 05:58:41 · answer #2 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hi, i do microbiology. Organisms names just change as time goes on and more and more things are learnt about them. All organisms are placed in various species groups based on their physical, chemical and various other attributes. Also has 2 do with their resevoir of infection and their virulence factor.
Like 4 example helicobacter pylori use 2 belong 2 the group campylobacter and was called campylobacter pylori, but as scientific techniques advanced it was found that C.pylori had more difference 2 the other oragnisms in the group than similarities. Due this factor it was reorganised and renamed, just the same as pasteurella pestis was renamed 2 yersinia pestis.
2006-07-23 06:46:40 · answer #3 · answered by LOULOU37 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Yersinia pestis is a gram negative bacterium belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family and is a facultive anaerobic that can kill, like the bubonic plague and other diseases. Necrotizing fasciitis is commonly known as the flesh eating bacteria. I believe that is reason enough, smarty pants...
2016-03-28 22:43:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was mutation, due to environmental factors. In other words, the medium for growth of the Pasteurella pestis changed and this caused P. pestis to mutate to Y. pestis.
2006-07-21 03:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Molecular biology allows us to more accurately determine which species a bacteria belongs to. This means that we now know that the bacteria that causes the black plague is most closely related to other bacteria in the Genus Yersinia, hence the change of name.
2006-07-21 00:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by uselessadvice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Americans wanted 2 remove French name Pasteur. Nothing else changed
2006-07-21 00:00:41 · answer #7 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its not PC to call it the Black Death these days.
2006-07-20 23:57:10 · answer #8 · answered by A G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Luis Pastuer got p***** when he found out they used his name for a disease and made them change it!!
2006-07-20 23:56:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think that Yersini is the first one who discovered it so it was changed to honor him..
2006-07-21 02:03:53 · answer #10 · answered by ldl990 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋