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Ten years of surveillance of the Yulong plague focus in China and the molecular typing and source tracing of the isolates.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Mar 2018
Wang Peng, Shi Liyuan, Zhang Fuxin, Guo Ying, Zhang Zhikai, Tan Hongli, Cui Zhigang, Ding Yibo, Liang Ying, Liang Yun, Yu Dongzheng, Xu Jianguo, Li Wei, Song Zhizhong
Abstract excerpt
Plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, was classified as a reemerging infectious disease by the World Health Organization. The five human pneumonic plague cases in Yulong County in 2005 gave rise to the discovery of a Yulong plague focus in Yunnan province, China. Thereafter, continuous wild rodent plague (sylvatic plague) was identified as the main plague reservoir of this focus. In this study, the epizootics in...
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