Pneumonic Plague Outbreak, Northern Madagascar, 2011.

The article discusses a study on pneumonic plague outbreak in Northern Madagascar in 2011. The Madagascar-specific 1.ORI3-K single-nucleotide polymorphism genotype and four clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat patterns were identified by isolating molecular typing of Yersinia pestis from two survivors and five Rattus rat samples. Multidrug-resistant strains and pathogens are found to pose risks causing 100 percent fatality rate for nontreated patients.