摘要:The new name for the plague bacillus (formerly “Yersinia pestis”) is Y. pseudotuberculosis subsp. pestis, while the pseudotuberculosis bacillus is named Y. pseudotuberculosis subsp. pseudotuberculosis. Any tendency to abbreviate these names on labels of cultures, especially by omitting the subspecies epithet, must be avoided because of the risk of confusion between the dangerous plague organism and the pseudotuberculosis bacillus. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (499K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 545 546 547 548