Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Bacteria (domain)
6. Proteobacteria (phylum)
7. Gammaproteobacteria (class)
8. Enterobacteriales (order)

Narrower term/s

• Yersinia (genus)[+]
  • Yersinia pestis (species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Family of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that do not form endospores. Its organisms are distributed worldwide with some being saprophytes and others being plant and animal parasites. Many species are of considerable economic importance due to their pathogenic effects on agriculture and livestock.