Pestis

Pestis may refer to:

• Plague (disease)
• Yersinia pestis, a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium species
• Pestilence (disambiguation)
• Pestis (Roman mythology), the daemon/personification of pestilence, plague, illness, sickness and disease
• Scrutinium Pestis, a 1658 book by Athanasius Kircher

Places

• PestiÅ¡, a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Serbia
• Peștiș, a village in Aleșd town, Bihor County, Romania
• Peștiș (Cerna), a tributary of the Cerna in Hunedoara County, Romania
• Peștiș (Mureș), a tributary of the Mureș in Arad and Timiș Counties, Romania

See also

• Nosology, a branch of medicine that deals with classification of diseases