Ten years of surveillance of the Yulong plague focus in China and the molecular typing and source tracing of the isolates.

• Main Authors: Peng Wang (Author), Liyuan Shi (Author), Fuxin Zhang (Author), Ying Guo (Author), Zhikai Zhang (Author), Hongli Tan (Author), Zhigang Cui (Author), Yibo Ding (Author), Ying Liang (Author), Yun Liang (Author), Dongzheng Yu (Author), Jianguo Xu (Author), Wei Li (Author), Zhizhong Song (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, was classified as a reemerging infectious disease by the World Health Organization. The five human pneumonic plague cases in Yulong County in 2005 gave rise to the discovery of a Yulong plague focus in Yunnan province, China. Thereafter, continuous wild rodent plag...