Pneumonic plague outbreak, northern Madagascar, 2011

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 8-15

  Richard, Vincent ^a   Riehm, Julia M ^b,c   Herindrainy, Perlinot ^d   Soanandrasana, Rahelinirina ^d   Ratsitoharina, Maherisoa ^d   Rakotomanana, Fanjasoa ^d   Andrianalimanana, Samuel ^e   Scholz, Holger C ^b,c   Rajerison, Minoarisoa ^d  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^b BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c German Center for Infection Research   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^e Ministry of Public Health   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PALINDROMIC DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HEADACHE; HEDGEHOG; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIC PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUNCUS MURINUS; THORAX PAIN; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MADAGASCAR; MORTALITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLAGUE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84919665806     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2101.131828     Document Type: Article

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