Pathogenic Yersinia

• An intradermal model for Yersinia pestis inoculation.- Intranasal Inoculation of Mice with Yersinia pestis and Processing of Pulmonary Tissue for Analysis.- Standardized method for aerosol challenge of rodents with Yersinia pestis for modeling primary pneumonic plague.- Mouse Models of Yersiniosis.- Intravital Confocal Microscopy of Dermal Innate Immune Responses to Flea-transmitted Yersinia pestis.- Laser scanning microscopy of Yersinia pestis infected tissues.- Real-time monitoring of Yersinia pestis promoter activity by bioluminescence imaging.- Discovering Yersinia-Host Interactions by Tissue Dual RNA-seq.- Detection of cells translocated with Yersinia Yops in infected tissues using β-lactamase fusions.- Monitoring of neutrophil recruitment to mice lungs during pneumonic plague.- Co-infection assay to determine Yersinia pestis competitive fitness in fleas.- Drosophila as a model for understanding the insect host of Yersinia pestis.- Intracellular assays to monitor survival and growth of Yersinia pestis within macrophages.- Human neutrophil isolation and degranulation responses to Yersinia pestis infection.- Measurement of Yersinia translocon pore formation in erythrocytes.- Analysis of inflammasome activation in response to Yersinia infection by fluorescence microscopy detection of active caspase-1 puncta.- Methods for detection of pyrin inflammasome assembly in macrophages infected with Yersinia spp.

“The book is written for the research community, including novices. Clinicians and parasitologists with an interest in investigation and discovery of Yersinia virulence mechanisms may also find this book helpful and interesting. … This is a wonderful resource for understanding the investigation and discovery of the virulence mechanisms of Yersinia. … This book is quite unique in covering the methods and protocols related to Yersinia pathogen‐host interactions.” (Omer Iqbal, Doody's Book Reviews, November 01, 2019)