Yersinia

(yĕr-sin′ē-ă )

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[Alexandre Emil Jean Yersin, Swiss bacteriologist who worked in Paris, 1863-1943]
A genus of gram-negative coccobacilli of the family Enterobacteriaceae; several are human pathogens.

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