1/8 - New in @natcomms.nature.com ! ☣️ Meet Yersinia enterocolitica (Ye) — a lesser-known but still dangerous cousin of Yersinia pestis. We uncover how this invasive pathogen can survive and adapt for 14 years inside a human host under constant antibiotic pressure 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very clear explanation by @alicelebreton.bsky.social of our article about plague virulence reduction, in Le Monde (in French)!

#NatMicroPicks The plague virulence! 💀🦠 During plague epidemics, virulence gene pla in Yersinia pestis often becomes depleted, which reduces the pathogen's lethality and may help it survive in less susceptible hosts when transmission conditions worsen. #MicroSky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦠 The plague bacillus became less virulent, extending the duration of two major pandemics. @yersiniaunit.bsky.social @pierrelebury.bsky.social @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social @ravneetksidhu.bsky.social

Picking up our publication on Black Death and plague pandemics: here are interesting historical thoughs about the well known but deceptive (not so) medieval plague doctor costume

Our work on the facial skin microbiome of non-human primates is out in mSystems! We show there is no close relative of Cutibacterium on the faces of gorillas and chimps at the Lincoln Park Zoo, furthering the mysterious origin of the dominant human skin colonizer. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

IIDR researchers have discovered that a single gene in Yersinia pestis — the bacteria that causes bubonic #plague — was responsible for keeping pandemics like the Black Death burning for hundreds of years. Learn more about this evolutionary phenomenon in our all-new explainer video. #IDSky

Two great papers in @science.org this month on the #evolution of #vector-borne #pathogens 1 #Yersinia pestis attenuates virulence over 3 pandemics 2 Ancient #Borrelia genomes trace the rise of louse-borne relapsing fever Fascinating reads (links below)

New in 𝘚𝘊𝘐𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌: Plague Plays the Long Game As plague pandemics decimated rodent populations, 𝘠𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘴 adapted Virulence gene 𝘱𝘭𝘢 lost late in outbreaks ➡️ strains with reduced lethality ➡️ pathogen can persist, spread across highly fragmented host networks www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/12 - New in @science.org ! ☠️ Curious of what happened to Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the Black Death, throughout plague pandemics? Check out our new study 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

White smoke, we have a new pope and also 16 new anti-phages systems in sedentary integrons (SCIs) ! In collaboration with the Rocha lab, we show in our new paper that cassettes of these large platforms encode many known anti-phage defenses, and uncovered 16 new ones. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Habemus paper! Our story on integron-encoded anti-phage defenses is now out in @science.org! 16 new systems, small versions of known ones, and a lot more in this highly-collaborative study. Many thanks to everyone involved, especially my supervisor @epcrocha.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bapt...

La tribune du mouvement Stand Up for Science France parue ce matin dans Le Monde (texte complet et signataires en ALT). Mobilisons-nous le 7 mars pour défendre la recherche scientifique et l'université ! #StandUpforScience #StandUpforScienceFrance

New updates on our plague vaccine: we now report that the type 3 secretion system is important for innate and adaptative immunity mechanisms and useful for protection in our live Yersinia pseudotuberculosis producing the F1 pseudocapsule 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Following criticisms raised concerning our article www.nature.com/articles/s41..., we just confirmed our original conclusions, demonstrating that the rs2549794 variant near the ERAP2 locus displays a strong positive selection signal associated with the Black Death ☠️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...