Plague is a disease of epidemic potential that may emerge with discontinuous outbreaks. In
South America, 50 wild rodent species have been identified as plague reservoirs, in addition …

We have developed a procedure for the rapid diagnosis of plague that also allows the
identification of prominent virulence markers of Y. pestis strains. This procedure is based …

Background The Hemagglutination assay (HA) is widely used in plague diagnosis, however,
it has a subjective interpretation and demands high amounts of antigen and other …

Plague in Brazil is poorly known and now rarely seen, so studies of its ecology are difficult.
We used ecological niche models of historical (1966-present) records of human plague …

La peste es una enfermedad infecciosa que ha trascendido a lo largo de la historia, siendo
responsable de tres pandemias con altas tasas de mortalidad. Durante la tercera pandemia …

Zoonoses are diseases or infections naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to
humans, and can be bacterial, viral or parasitic. The growth of urbanization, industrialization …

Plague is a zoonosis caused by Yersinia pestis, whose cycle is based on a reservoir system
composed of mammals and their fleas. Its transmission cycle presents long enzootic periods …

Plague caused by Yersinia pestis, has persisted in Brazil in several natural foci spread
throughout rural areas in the States of Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do …

Aims: To determine the effectiveness of multiplex‐PCR in Yersinia pestis identification in
samples preserved in Cary & Blair medium and to evaluate if this technique would uncover …

The passive haemagglutination (PHA) test, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
and the dot enzyme-immunosorbent assay (DOT-ELISA) were used to detect the levels of …