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The Unseen Plague: Chronic Disease
The American Journal of Nursing, 1940 Pauline Carlson Jaxtheimer +1 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background The Junggar Basin plague focus was the most recently identified natural plague focus in China. Through extensive field investigations, great gerbils (Rhombomys opimus) have been confirmed as the main host in this focus, and the community ...
Wenting Mou +11 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 In the present study, surveys of case numbers, constituent ratios, conventional biotyping, and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) were applied to characterize the incidence rate and epidemiological characteristics of human brucellosis in Shaanxi Province,
Cui-hong An +7 more
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Plague, a Reemerging Disease in Madagascar [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1998 Human cases of plague, which had virtually disappeared in Madagascar after the 1930s, reappeared in 1990 with more than 200 confirmed or presumptive cases reported each year since. In the port of Mahajanga, plague has been reintroduced, and epidemics occur every year. In Antananarivo, the capital, the number of new cases has increased, and many rodents
B. Rasoamanana +6 more
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Plague Prevention and Therapy: Perspectives on Current and Future Strategies
Biomedicines, 2021 Plague, caused by the bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis, is a vector-borne disease that has caused millions of human deaths over several centuries. Presently, human plague infections continue throughout the world.
Raysa Rosario-Acevedo +3 more
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Microbial Ecology, 2020 Infectious diseases are one of the major drivers of coral reef decline worldwide. White plague-like disease (WPL) is a widespread disease with a complex etiology that infects several coral species, including the Brazilian endemic species Mussismilia ...
A. W. Silva-Lima +10 more
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Host resistance, population structure and the long-term persistence of bubonic plague: contributions of a modelling approach in the Malagasy focus. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2013 Although bubonic plague is an endemic zoonosis in many countries around the world, the factors responsible for the persistence of this highly virulent disease remain poorly known.
Fanny Gascuel +4 more
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Contrasted patterns of selection on MHC-linked microsatellites in natural populations of the Malagasy plague reservoir. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 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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Examining the Direct and Indirect Effects of Climatic Variables on Plague Dynamics
Atmosphere, 2020 Climate change can influence infectious disease dynamics both directly, by affecting the disease ecology, and indirectly, through altering economic systems.
Ricci P.H. Yue, Harry F. Lee
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