Zoonotic Focus of Plague, Algeria

Bitam, Idir; Baziz, Belkacem; Rolain, Jean-Marc; Belkaid, Miloud; Raoult, Didier

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Zoonotic Focus of Plague, Algeria

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Dec 2006
By Bitam, Idir ; Baziz, Belkacem ; Rolain, Jean-Marc ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Bitam, Idir ; Baziz, Belkacem ; Rolain, Jean-Marc ; Belkaid, Miloud ; Raoult, Didier
Description:

After an outbreak of human plague, 95 Xenopsylla cheopis fleas from Algeria were tested for Yersinia pestis with PCR methods. Nine fleas were definitively confirmed to be infected with Y. pestis biovar orientalis. Our results demonstrate the persistence of a zoonotic focus of Y. pestis in Algeria.
Subjects:

Algeria Animals Dispatch DNA, Bacterial DNA, Intergenic Fleas Humans Insect Vectors Plague Plasminogen Activators Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA Siphonaptera Yersinia Pestis Zoonoses
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 12(12):1975-1977.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Volume:

12
Issue:

12
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:beeb32242c42aaa910eeed5125da68bcb58241bf354cd4f6b0d6f2aaa1b5074a
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16350/cdc_16350_DS1.pdf
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