Plague from eating raw camel liver

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1456-1457

  Bin Saeed, Abdulaziz A ^a,b,c   Al Hamdan, Nasser A ^b   Fontaine, Robert E ^b,d  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CAMEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLEA; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; LIVER; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MEAT; PHARYNGITIS; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 23944516751     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1109.050081     Document Type: Article

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