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Abstract
An acute infectious disease caused by YERSINIA PESTIS that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.
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- Yersinia pestis Infection
- Black Death
- Black Plague
- Bubonic Plague
- Meningeal Plague
- Pneumonic Plague
- Pulmonic Plague
- Septicemic Plague
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
Pasteurella pestis or Yersinia pestis infection only; swine plague = HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA /vet (IM) + SWINE DISEASES (IM) but do not confuse with African swine plague ( = AFRICAN SWINE FEVER)
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- National Library of Medicine. Plague. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010930. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010930
- Plague. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)
- Plague. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133780