1. Pneumonic Plague Transmission, Moramanga, Madagascar, 2015.
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Ramasindrazana, Beza, Andrianaivoarimanana, Voahangy, Rakotondramanga, Jean Marius, Birdsell, Dawn N., Ratsitorahina, Maherisoa, and Rajerison, Minoarisoa
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PLAGUE ,COMMUNICABLE diseases ,YERSINIA diseases ,EPIDEMICS ,YERSINIA pestis ,INFECTIOUS disease transmission ,GRAM-negative bacteria ,CONTACT tracing - Abstract
During a pneumonic plague outbreak in Moramanga, Madagascar, we identified 4 confirmed, 1 presumptive, and 9 suspected plague case-patients. Human-to-human transmission among close contacts was high (reproductive number 1.44) and the case fatality rate was 71%. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the Yersinia pestis isolates belonged to group q3, different from the previous outbreak. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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