A dog-associated primary pneumonic plague in Qinghai Province, China

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-190

  Wang, Hu ^a   Cui, Yujun ^c   Wang, Zuyun ^a   Wang, Xiaoyi ^c   Guo, Zhaobiao ^c   Yan, Yanfeng ^c   Li, Chao ^a   Cui, Baizhong ^a   Xiao, Xiao ^c   Yang, Yonghai ^a   Qi, Zhizhen ^a   Wang, Guojun ^a   Wei, Baiqing ^a   Yu, Shouhong ^a   He, Duolong ^a   Chen, Hongjian ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Song, Yajun ^c   Yang, Ruifu ^c  

^a Plague Prevention and Control Department Qinghai Institute for Endemic Diseases Prevention and Control   (China)

^b Hainan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; F1 ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOODY SPUTUM; CASE REPORT; CHINA; COUGHING; DOG; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EPIDEMIC; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIMARY PNEUMONIC PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERUM; SPUTUM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 79951837363     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq107     Document Type: Article

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