ArticleScientific reports2020
Soil salinity and aridity specify plague foci in the United States of America.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Commentary on Seersholm Et al.: Yersinia pestis Infection Is Not Synonymous With Deadly Plague in Neolithic Scandinavia.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
- Soil characteristics associated with historical commensal rodent plague foci in Yunnan Province, China.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Beyond Mosquitoes: A Review of Pediatric Vector-Borne Diseases Excluding Malaria and Arboviral Infections.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Different characteristics of the soil in marmot habitats might be one of the factors that influctingFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- No evidence for persistent natural plague reservoirs in historical and modern Europe.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Evaluating Variation in Germination and Growth of Landraces of Barley (Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Plague Exposure in Mammalian Wildlife Across the Western United States.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Application of Lab-on-Chip for Detection of Microbial Nucleic Acid in Food and Environment.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Review
- Yersinia pestis: the Natural History of Plague.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020Review
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Plague is a deadly zoonosis that periodically reemerges as small outbreaks in geographically limited foci where the causative agent Yersinia pestis may reside in soil. We analyzed a dataset of 1.005 carefully documented plague cases that were georeferenced over 113 years in peer-reviewed literature in the contiguous United States. Plotting outbreaks by counties defined as plague foci on geographical maps, we observed a significant co-localization of plague outbreaks with high soil salinity measured by an electric conductivity of >4 dS/ m
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