Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague and is considered one of the most likely pathogens to be used as a bioweapon.In humans,plague is a severe clinical infection that can rapidly progress with a high morta...
Plague caused by Yersinia pestis is one of the infectious diseases subject to the International Health Regulations (IHR). Permanent monitoring of the focal plague areas is mandatory in order to enable prompt control m...
Objective:To characterize the case fatality and estimate the symptomatic period of bubonic plague.Methods: Epidemiologic analyses of a previous outbreak of plague in Osaka and Kobe,two major port cities in Japan, from...
The purpose of the paper was to assess the frequency of secondary transmissions of primary pneumonic plague relative to the onset of fever.A simple backcalculation method was employed to estimate the frequency of seco...
In this study,we designed and engineered a two-component recombinant fusionprotein antigen as a vaccine candidate against the possible biological threat of Yersinia pestis.Therecombinant F1-V protein was formulated wi...