title: Pestis
text: # 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
     * Phthisis, one of the Nosoi or Pestis
  * Scrutinium Pestis, a 1658 book by Athanasius Kircher
  
  ## Places
  
  * Pestiš, 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
  