Pneumonic plague transmission, Moramanga, Madagascar, 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 521-524

  Ramasindrazana, Beza ^a   Andrianaivoarimanana, Voahangy ^a   Rakotondramanga, Jean Marius ^a   Birdsell, Dawn N ^b   Ratsitorahina, Maherisoa ^c   Rajerison, Minoarisoa ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ministry of Health   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CASE FATALITY RATE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; COUGHING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MADAGASCAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIA; RAT; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; YERSINIA PESTIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAGUE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85013304469     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2303.161406     Document Type: Article

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