|
|
Article: Asymptomatic Yersinia pestis infection, China.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
To the Editor: Plague is one of the oldest identifiable diseases. Modern public health measures and effective antimicrobial treatments have led to a decrease in plague cases worldwide. However, plague remains endemic in many natural foci. Since the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a steadily increasing trend in human plague cases, which has resulted in the recognition of plague as a reemerging disease (1). The emergence of antimicrobial drug-resistant along with an increasing number of strains of Yersinia pestis, plague cases, remind us that plague still poses a serious public health threat (2,3). In China, human cases of plague have been ...