Yersinia pestis, the plague bacteria, can survive inside Acanthamoeba for protection

Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, can survive within the ubiquitous soil protozoan, the amoeba, by producing proteins that protect against the latter microbe's digestion. The research is published April 28th in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The research is important because plague is a re-emerging ["]

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