Plague from Eating Raw Camel Liver

We investigated a cluster of 5 plague cases; the patients included 4 with severe pharyngitis and submandibular lymphadenitis. These 4 case-patients had eaten raw camel liver. Yersinia pestis was isolated from bone marrow of the camel and from jirds (Meriones libycus) and fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) c...

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Autores principales: Saeed, Abdulaziz A. Bin, Al-Hamdan, Nasser A., Fontaine, Robert E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16229781
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.050081
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description We investigated a cluster of 5 plague cases; the patients included 4 with severe pharyngitis and submandibular lymphadenitis. These 4 case-patients had eaten raw camel liver. Yersinia pestis was isolated from bone marrow of the camel and from jirds (Meriones libycus) and fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) captured at the camel corral.
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spelling pubmed-33106192012-04-06 Plague from Eating Raw Camel Liver Saeed, Abdulaziz A. Bin Al-Hamdan, Nasser A. Fontaine, Robert E. Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We investigated a cluster of 5 plague cases; the patients included 4 with severe pharyngitis and submandibular lymphadenitis. These 4 case-patients had eaten raw camel liver. Yersinia pestis was isolated from bone marrow of the camel and from jirds (Meriones libycus) and fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) captured at the camel corral. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3310619/ /pubmed/16229781 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1109.050081 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Plague from Eating Raw Camel Liver
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title_short Plague from Eating Raw Camel Liver
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3310619/
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