Giuseppe
Emeritus
New Rural Focus of Plague, Algeria (Emerg Infect Dis., excerpt, edited)
[Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full text: <cite cite="http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/10/1639.htm">New Rural Focus of Plague, Algeria | CDC EID</cite>. Excerpt, edited.]
Volume 16, Number 10?October 2010
Letter
New Rural Focus of Plague, Algeria
Idir Bitam, Saravanan Ayyadurai, Tahar Kernif, Mohammed Chetta, Nabil Boulaghman, Didier Raoult, and Michel Drancourt
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur d?Alg?rie, Hamma, Algeria (I. Bitam, T. Kernif); Universit? de la M?diterran?e, Marseille, France (S. Ayyadurai, D. Raoult, M. Drancourt); and H?pital Universitaire de Laghouat, Laghouat, Algeria (M. Chetta, N. Boulaghman)
To the Editor:
Plague is a deadly rodent-associated flea-borne zoonosis caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (1). Human plague periodically reemerges in so-called plague foci, as illustrated by the 2003 reemergence of human plague in the Oran area, Algeria (2,3). We report emergence of a new plague focus in a remote region of Algeria.
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[Source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, full text: <cite cite="http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/10/1639.htm">New Rural Focus of Plague, Algeria | CDC EID</cite>. Excerpt, edited.]
Volume 16, Number 10?October 2010
Letter
New Rural Focus of Plague, Algeria
Idir Bitam, Saravanan Ayyadurai, Tahar Kernif, Mohammed Chetta, Nabil Boulaghman, Didier Raoult, and Michel Drancourt
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur d?Alg?rie, Hamma, Algeria (I. Bitam, T. Kernif); Universit? de la M?diterran?e, Marseille, France (S. Ayyadurai, D. Raoult, M. Drancourt); and H?pital Universitaire de Laghouat, Laghouat, Algeria (M. Chetta, N. Boulaghman)
To the Editor:
Plague is a deadly rodent-associated flea-borne zoonosis caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (1). Human plague periodically reemerges in so-called plague foci, as illustrated by the 2003 reemergence of human plague in the Oran area, Algeria (2,3). We report emergence of a new plague focus in a remote region of Algeria.
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