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Levofloxacin Cures Experimental Pneumonic Plague in African Green Monkeys

BACKGROUND: Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, is considered a potential bioweapon due to rapid lethality when delivered as an aerosol. Levofloxacin was tested for primary pneumonic plague treatment in a nonhuman primate model mimicking human disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: Twenty-four African Gree...

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Autores principales: Layton, Robert Colby, Mega, William, McDonald, Jacob D., Brasel, Trevor L., Barr, Edward B., Gigliotti, Andrew P., Koster, Frederick
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3035670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21347450
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000959