Historical and Modern Classifications of the Plague Agent
Journal: Problems of Particularly Dangerous Infections
Year: 2023

The review presents the data on domestic and foreign phenotypic classifications of Yersinia pestis s trains developed in the XX century; genetic classifications of the XXI century; as well as on the genealogy of ancient strains of the plague microbe, reconstructed using paleogenomic technologies. Since the discovery of the plague agent in 1894, many classifications were created that corresponded to the level of development of microbiology at that time. The intraspecific classification schemes of