History
For other genera named after people, see List of bacterial genera named after personal names. See also: Bacterial taxonomyYersinia pestis, the first described species, was identified in 1894 by A.E.J. Yersin, a Swiss bacteriologist, and Kitasato ShibasaburÅ, a Japanese bacteriologist. It was formerly described as Pasteurella pestis (known trivially as the plague-bacillus) by Lehmann and Neumann in 1896. In 1944, van Loghem reclassified the species P. pestis and P. rondentium into a new genus Yersinia. Following the introduction of the Bacteriological code, it was accepted as valid in 1980
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