Flea bacteria
This digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow _Yersinia pestis_bacteria.
Produced by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), this digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a number of yellow,_Yersinia pestis_bacteria, that had gathered on the proventricular spines of a_Xenopsylla cheopis_flea. The_Y. pestisbacterium is the pathogen that causes bubonic plague.
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