Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillu…

Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores. It causes the disease plague, which caused the first plague pandemic and the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Y. pestis can produce ATP by either fermentation or oxidative phosphorylation; thus, they are