Laboratoire de bactériologie et d'hygiène, UBM, CHU de Poitiers, BP 577, 86021 Poitiers cedex, France.
Med Mal Infect. 2013 Sep;43(9):363-7. doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2013.06.014. Epub 2013 Aug 3.
A vampire is a non-dead and non-alive chimerical creature, which, according to various folklores and popular superstitions, feeds on blood of the living to draw vital force. Vampires do not reproduce by copulation, but by bite. Vampirism is thus similar to a contagious disease contracted by intravascular inoculation with a suspected microbial origin. In several vampire films, two real bacteria were staged, better integrated than others in popular imagination: Yersinia pestis and Treponema pallidum. Bacillus vampiris was created for science-fiction. These films are attempts to better define humans through one of their greatest fears: infectious disease.
吸血鬼是一种不死不活的、虚构的生物，根据各种民间传说和流行的迷信，吸血鬼以吸食活人的血液来汲取生命力。吸血鬼不是通过交配繁殖，而是通过咬来繁殖。因此，吸血鬼病类似于通过血管内接种可疑微生物来源而感染的传染病。在几部吸血鬼电影中，有两种真正的细菌被搬上了银幕，比其他细菌更能融入大众的想象：鼠疫耶尔森菌和梅毒螺旋体。嗜血杆菌是为科幻小说创造的。这些电影试图通过人类最大的恐惧之一来更好地定义人类：传染病。
