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The Plague (Black Death) Is Still Around and May Come Back [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Plague in Iran: its history and current status [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiology and Health, 2016
OBJECTIVES: Plague remains a public health concern worldwide, particularly in old foci. Multiple epidemics of this disease have been recorded throughout the history of Iran.
Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6(th) Century AD Reveals Insights into Justinianic Plague. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of the disease plague, has been implicated in three historical pandemics. These include the third pandemic of the 19(th) and 20(th) centuries, during which plague was spread around the world, and the second pandemic ...
Birdsell, Dawn   +13 more
core   +3 more sources

Outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Yersinia pestis in Afghanistan. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

A single-dose F1-based mRNA-LNP vaccine provides protection against the lethal plague bacterium

open access: yesScience Advances, 2023
Messenger RNA (mRNA) lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vaccines have emerged as an effective vaccination strategy. Although currently applied toward viral pathogens, data concerning the platform’s effectiveness against bacterial pathogens are limited.
E. Kon   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ressenyes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Obra ressenyada: Ole J. BENEDICTOW, What Disease was Plague? On the Controversy over the Microbiological Identity of Plague Epidemics of the Past.
Reche Ontillera, Alberto
core   +1 more source

Spatial analysis and identification of high risk plague regions in Pakistan based on associated rodent species distribution

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Silent Sources of the History of Epidemics in the Islamic World: Literature on Ṭāʿūn/Plague Treatises [PDF]

open access: yesNazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2021
From 1347 onwards, new literature emerged in the Islamic and Western worlds: the Ṭā‘ūn [Plague] Treatises. The literature in Islamdom was underpinned by three things: (i) Because the first epidemic was a phenomenon that had been experienced since the ...
Mustakim Arıcı
doaj   +1 more source

Role of the Yersinia pestis yersiniabactin iron acquisition system in the incidence of flea-borne plague. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +1 more source

Human plague system associated with rodent diversity and other environmental factors [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal 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
doaj   +1 more source

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