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The Plague (Black Death) Is Still Around and May Come Back [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiologic Research, 2022 Plague has been among the most devastating infectious diseases in human history. The decrease in the plague in recently reported cases and studies implies that the plague should not recur, but the fact is that it (Black Death) is still around and may ...
Nader Aghakhani +4 more
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Outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Yersinia pestis in Afghanistan. [PDF]
, 2011 Plague, which is most often caused by the bite of Yersinia pestis-infected fleas, is a rapidly progressing, serious disease that can be fatal without prompt antibiotic treatment.
Ayazi, E +13 more
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Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2016 Plague, caused by Yersinia pestitis, is an infectious bacterial disease that has a high fatality rate if untreated. Rodents are plague reservoirs and play an important role in disease spread.
Madiha Shabbir +6 more
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Human plague system associated with rodent diversity and other environmental factors [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Plague remains a threat to public health and is considered as a re-emerging infectious disease today. Rodents play an important role as major hosts in plague persistence and driving plague outbreaks in natural foci; however, few studies have tested the ...
Zhe Sun +13 more
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, 2015 When asked to think of headlining diseases, many would choose bubonic plague, smallpox, Ebola, or leprosy. However, Lyme disease makes up for more confirmed diagnostic cases in the United States than all the aforementioned diseases combined.
Beal, Marin Olson
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A self-amplifying RNA vaccine provides protection in a murine model of bubonic plague
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Mice were immunized with a combination of self-amplifying (sa) RNA constructs for the F1 and V antigens of Yersinia pestis at a dose level of 1 μg or 5 μg or with the respective protein sub-units as a reference vaccine.
Robin John Shattock +11 more
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Plague: From Natural Disease to Bioterrorism [PDF]
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2005 Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, an enzootic vectorborne disease usually infecting rodents (rats) and fleas. Humans can become infected after being bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents. In humans, the disease usually occurs in the form of bubonic plague. In rare cases, the infection spreads to the lungs via the bloodstream
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The Effect of Seasonal Weather Variation on the Dynamics of the Plague Disease
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2017 Plague is a historic disease which is also known to be the most devastating disease that ever occurred in human history, caused by gram-negative bacteria known as Yersinia pestis.
Rigobert C. Ngeleja +2 more
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Role of the Yersinia pestis yersiniabactin iron acquisition system in the incidence of flea-borne plague. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Plague is a flea-borne zoonosis caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis mutants lacking the yersiniabactin (Ybt) siderophore-based iron transport system are avirulent when inoculated intradermally but fully virulent when inoculated ...
Florent Sebbane +4 more
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Plague: Bridging gaps towards better disease control
Médecine et Maladies Infectieuses, 2018 After centuries of epidemics and more than a hundred years since the identification of the causative bacterium, very little is known about the plague dynamics in animal reservoirs, vectors and the changing vulnerabilities for humans. The recent plague epidemic in Madagascar in 2017 highlights these gaps existing within the knowledge of the disease ...
E. D’Ortenzio +7 more
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