Pestis
# 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
