BUBONIC PLAGUE FROM EXPOSURE TO A RABBIT: A DOCUMENTED CASE, AND A REVIEW OF RABBIT-ASSOCIATED PLAGUE CASES IN THE UNITED STATES
| Autor: | U G Hodgin, C. F. Von Reyn, Arti Barnes, N S Weber |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
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Bubo
Disease reservoir Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Yersinia pestis Epidemiology Bubonic plague Zoonoses Animals Humans Medicine Disease Reservoirs RABBIT EXPOSURE Plague biology business.industry Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease United States Direct exposure Food Microbiology Siphonaptera Female Rabbits medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Epidemiology. 104:81-87 |
| ISSN: | 1476-6256 0002-9262 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a112276 |
| Popis: | A 62-year-old woman developed bubonic plague with an epitrochlear bubo one to two days after skinning two cottontail rabbits. The implicated rabbits were later recovered from the patient's freezer, and Yersinia pestis was isolated from marrows of both rabbits. Although human plague cases in the United States have occasionally been traced to exposure to wild rabbits, this is the first documentation of plague infection in the actual rabbits to which the patient was exposed. All reported cases of rabbit-associated plague in the United States were then reviewed. Eight cases were characterized by direct exposure to rabbit tissues. Seven of the eight cases occurred in adult males who had hunted rabbits during winter months in plague-endemic areas. These patients had upper extremity buboes, and the case-fatality ration for the group was 50%. Three other cases in which rabbit exposure was indirect or its role less clear, were also analyzed. |
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