Pneumonic plague cluster, Uganda, 2004

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 460-467

  Begier, Elizabeth M ^a,d   Asiki, Gershim ^b   Anywaine, Zaccheus ^b   Yockey, Brook ^a   Schriefer, Martin E ^a   Aleti, Philliam ^c   Ogen Odoi, Asaph ^c   Erin Staples, J ^a   Sexton, Christopher ^a   Bearden, Scott W ^a   Kool, Jacob L ^a  

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

^b Nyapea Hospital   (Uganda)

^c UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^d NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLOROQUINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UGANDA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIOSIS;

EID: 33644510770     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1203.051051     Document Type: Article

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