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ArticleZoonoses and public health2018

Human case of bubonic plague resulting from the bite of a wild Gunnison's prairie dog during translocation from a plague-endemic area.

S D Melman, P E Ettestad, E S VinHatton, J M Ragsdale, N Takacs, L M Onischuk, P M Leonard, S S Master, V S Lucero, L C Kingry and 1 more

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Article in Zoonoses and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Plague Gives Surprises in the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023
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  7. Yersinia pestis: the Natural History of Plague.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

S D MelmanEpidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6719-8806
P E EttestadEpidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
E S VinHattonEpidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
J M RagsdaleNew Mexico Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Diagnostic Services, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
N TakacsNew Mexico Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Diagnostic Services, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
L M OnischukScientific Laboratory Division, New Mexico Department of Health, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
P M LeonardScientific Laboratory Division, New Mexico Department of Health, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
S S MasterScientific Laboratory Division, New Mexico Department of Health, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
V S LuceroCity of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
L C KingryDivision of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
J M PetersenDivision of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
New Mexico Department of Health · USCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · USSanta Fe Institute · US

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plague is a zoonotic disease (transmitted mainly by fleas and maintained in nature by rodents) that causes severe acute illness in humans. We present a human plague case who became infected by the bite of a wild Gunnison's prairie dog, and a good practical example of the One Health approach that resulted in a rapid public health response. The exposure occurred while the animal was being transported for relocation to a wildlife refuge after being trapped in a plague enzootic area. This is the first report of a human plague case resulting from the bite of a Gunnison's prairie dog. Additionally, we present an observation of a longer incubation period for plague in captive prairie dogs, leading to a recommendation for a longer quarantine period for prairie dogs during translocation efforts.

Indexed as

Endemic DiseasesSciuridaeAgedAnimalsAnimals, WildAnti-Bacterial AgentsBites and StingsDoxycyclineHumansMaleNew MexicoOne HealthPlagueYersinia pestisAnti-Bacterial AgentsDoxycyclineCynomys gunnisonidisease introductionplagueprairie dogstranslocationYersinia pestis

Identifiers

PMID29110441
PMCPMC5859330
OpenAlexW2767472751

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