ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2017
Patterns of Human Plague in Uganda, 2008-2016.
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- Exploring and Mitigating Plague for One Health Purposes.Current tropical medicine reports · 2022Article
- A decade of plague in Madagascar: a description of two hotspot districts.BMC public health · 2021Article
- An Evaluation of the Flea Index as a Predictor of Plague Epizootics in the West Nile Region of Uganda.Journal of medical entomology · 2020Article
- Intervention To Stop Transmission of Imported Pneumonic Plague - Uganda, 2019.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2020Article
- Systematic Review of Important Bacterial Zoonoses in Africa in the Last Decade in Light of the 'One Health' Concept.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Trends of Human Plague, Madagascar, 1998-2016.Emerging infectious diseases · 2019Article
- A Cross-Cutting Approach to Surveillance and Laboratory Capacity as a Platform to Improve Health Security in Uganda.Health security · 2018Article
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Abstract
Plague is a highly virulent fleaborne zoonosis that occurs throughout many parts of the world; most suspected human cases are reported from resource-poor settings in sub-Saharan Africa. During 2008-2016, a combination of active surveillance and laboratory testing in the plague-endemic West Nile region of Uganda yielded 255 suspected human plague cases; approximately one third were laboratory confirmed by bacterial culture or serology. Although the mortality rate was 7% among suspected cases, it was 26% among persons with laboratory-confirmed plague. Reports of an unusual number of dead rats in a patient's village around the time of illness onset was significantly associated with laboratory confirmation of plague. This descriptive summary of human plague in Uganda highlights the episodic nature of the disease, as well as the potential that, even in endemic areas, illnesses of other etiologies might be being mistaken for plague.
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