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Respiratory Care Clinics, 2004
In the United States, plague poses a threat to humans from the infected animals in the endemic areas of the Western states. Plague may also be used in the near future as an agent of warfare or terrorism. Although the presentation of bubonic plague may be less of a problem, the septicemic and pneumonic forms present challenges to early diagnosis and ...
Angeline A, Lazarus, Catherine F, Decker
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In the United States, plague poses a threat to humans from the infected animals in the endemic areas of the Western states. Plague may also be used in the near future as an agent of warfare or terrorism. Although the presentation of bubonic plague may be less of a problem, the septicemic and pneumonic forms present challenges to early diagnosis and ...
Angeline A, Lazarus, Catherine F, Decker
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The Justinianic Plague: An inconsequential pandemic?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance The Justinianic Plague (circa 541 to 750 CE) has recently featured prominently in scholarly and popular discussions. Current consensus accepts that it resulted in the deaths of between a quarter and half of the population of the ...
Lee Mordechai +2 more
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Analysis of 3800-year-old Yersinia pestis genomes suggests Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague
Nature Communications, 2018 The origin of Yersinia pestis and the early stages of its evolution are fundamental subjects of investigation given its high virulence and mortality that resulted from past pandemics. Although the earliest evidence of Y.
Maria A Spyrou, Rezeda I Tukhbatova
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FPR1 is the plague receptor on host immune cells
Nature, 2019 The causative agent of plague, Yersinia pestis, uses a type III secretion system to selectively destroy immune cells in humans, thus enabling Y. pestis to reproduce in the bloodstream and be transmitted to new hosts through fleabites.
Patrick Osei-Owusu +2 more
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Past & Present, 2021
This article deals with the origins and spread of the second outbreak of fourteenth-century plague pandemic, the pestis secunda, which swept over West Eurasia and North Africa between 1356 and 1366.
Philip Slavin
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This article deals with the origins and spread of the second outbreak of fourteenth-century plague pandemic, the pestis secunda, which swept over West Eurasia and North Africa between 1356 and 1366.
Philip Slavin
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Vaccine, 2009
Killed whole cell vaccines for plague were first produced as long ago as the late 1890s and modified versions of these are still used, with evidence that they are efficacious against bubonic plague. Renewed efforts with modern technology have yielded new candidate vaccines which are less reactogenic, can be produced in a conventional pharmaceutical ...
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Killed whole cell vaccines for plague were first produced as long ago as the late 1890s and modified versions of these are still used, with evidence that they are efficacious against bubonic plague. Renewed efforts with modern technology have yielded new candidate vaccines which are less reactogenic, can be produced in a conventional pharmaceutical ...
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Pediatrics, 1982
The large reservoir of animal plague in the American West led to 121 cases of human plague from 1970 to 1980. The majority (55%) of recent cases have occurred in children 16 years of age and younger. In New Mexico 38 pediatric plague cases were reviewed to determine the epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory features of this disease.
J M, Mann, L, Shandler, A H, Cushing
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The large reservoir of animal plague in the American West led to 121 cases of human plague from 1970 to 1980. The majority (55%) of recent cases have occurred in children 16 years of age and younger. In New Mexico 38 pediatric plague cases were reviewed to determine the epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory features of this disease.
J M, Mann, L, Shandler, A H, Cushing
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The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept
, 2020PLAGUE OUTBREAKS AND FEAR of their reoccurrence feature prominently in the modern imagination. Historians of the 1890s South Asian plague outbreak point out that “no other epidemic evoked the fear and panic generated by the plague” and that there are ...
Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai
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Southern Medical Journal, 1992
A 19-year-old man, recently returned from a 10-day military exercise in central California, had acute onset of shaking chills, headache, and bilateral inguinal adenopathy after having been bitten by insects on his lower extremities. He had exquisitely tender inguinal and femoral nodes bilaterally.
J T, Morris, C K, McAllister
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A 19-year-old man, recently returned from a 10-day military exercise in central California, had acute onset of shaking chills, headache, and bilateral inguinal adenopathy after having been bitten by insects on his lower extremities. He had exquisitely tender inguinal and femoral nodes bilaterally.
J T, Morris, C K, McAllister
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2020
Given a strong family history of early heart attacks, the future has always been an iffy proposition. Miraculously, I have bypassed the early off-ramps and find myself approaching 80, stents in place, considering the very real but previously unimaginable possibility of still more. But what kind of more?
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Given a strong family history of early heart attacks, the future has always been an iffy proposition. Miraculously, I have bypassed the early off-ramps and find myself approaching 80, stents in place, considering the very real but previously unimaginable possibility of still more. But what kind of more?
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