Bubonic plague overview

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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Overview

The bubonic plague or bubonic fever is the best-known variant of the deadly infectious disease caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis. The epidemiological use of the term plague is currently applied to bacterial infections that cause buboes, although historically the medical use of the term plague has been applied to pandemic infections in general.