Contrasted patterns of selection on MHC-linked microsatellites in natural populations of the Malagasy plague reservoir. [PDF]
Plague (Yersinia pestis infection) is a highly virulent rodent disease that persists in many natural ecosystems. The black rat (Rattus rattus) is the main host involved in the plague focus of the central highlands of Madagascar.
Charlotte Tollenaere +6 more
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Advanced molecular-genetic methods for the diagnosis and typing of Yersinia pestis ssp. pestis in the field and clinical material are used for epidemiological surveillance of plague in the Saylyugem natural focus.
M. B. Yarygina +5 more
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Plague is a typical natural focus disease that circulates in different ecology of vectors and reservoir hosts. We conducted genomic population and phylogenetic analyses of the Yersinia pestis collected from the 12 natural plague foci in China with more ...
Junrong Liang +15 more
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Forecasting of epizootic Activity of the Central Caucasian natural High-Mountain Plague Focus [PDF]
Central-Caucasian natural plague focus was permanently epizootically active since its discovering in 1971 till 2007. Inter-epizootic period has been in progress since 2008. It was not possible to isolate agent strains from field material.
V. M. Dubyansky +9 more
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Interrelations of Plague Microbe and Fleas from Geographically Separated Populations
Studied were the peculiarities of interrelations of plague microbe from Hentei natural focus of Mongolia and fleas Citellophilus tesquorum of three geographic populations (Zabaikalskaya and Tuvinskaya from the natural plague foci and Olkhonskaya from ...
L. P. Bazanova +2 more
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Efficiency of Human Plague Vaccination in Tuvinian Natural Plague Focus [PDF]
Background. Plague is an especially dangerous natural focal infectious disease belonging to a group of quarantine infections. There are eleven natural plague foci in Russian Federation.
K. M. Korytov +13 more
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Demarcation of the Boundaries of the Central Asian Desert Natural Focus of Plague of Kazakhstan and Monitoring the Areal of the Main Carrier, Rhombomys opimus [PDF]
The aim of the study was to clarify the boundaries of the Central Asian natural plague focus of Kazakhstan and the modern boundaries of the areal of the great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) in order to improve epizootiological monitoring and increase the ...
Z. Zh. Abdel +25 more
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Enhancement of Epidemiological Surveillance in Natural Plague Foci of the Russian Federation and Forecast of Epizootic Activity for 2022 [PDF]
The aim of the research was to assess epizootic activity of natural plague foci in the Russian Federation in 2021 and provide a prognosis for 2022. Activation of epizootic process has been detected in Central-Caucasian high-mountain natural plague focus ...
N. V. Popov +18 more
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Human and Animal Plague in Yunnan Province, China, 1950 to 2020
This study analyzed the epidemiological characteristics of 3,464 human plague cases and the distribution pattern of 4,968 Yersinia pestis isolates from humans, hosts, and vector insects from 1950 to 2020 among two natural plague foci in Yunnan Province ...
Haonan Han +14 more
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The Yersinia pestis aggregation as a functional adaptation to the flea organism (review)
The understanding of mechanisms and conditions of plague microbe aggregation in vectors (fleas) organisms has been of interest for a long time, and, with start of biofilm research in 1990s, it got a new perspectives.
Lyubov’ P. Bazanova +2 more
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