Mechanism study on a plague outbreak driven by the construction of a large reservoir in southwest china (surveillance from 2000-2015).

• Main Authors: Xin Wang (Author), Xiaoyu Wei (Author), Zhizhong Song (Author), Mingliu Wang (Author), Jinxiao Xi (Author), Junrong Liang (Author), Yun Liang (Author), Ran Duan (Author), Kecheng Tian (Author), Yong Zhao (Author), Guangpeng Tang (Author), Lv You (Author), Guirong Yang (Author), Xuebin Liu (Author), Yuhuang Chen (Author), Jun Zeng (Author), Shengrong Wu (Author), Shoujun Luo (Author), Gang Qin (Author), Huijing Hao (Author), Huaiqi Jing (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Plague, a Yersinia pestis infection, is a fatal disease with tremendous transmission capacity. However, the mechanism of how the pathogen stays in a reservoir, circulates and then re-emerges is an enigma. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:We studied a plague outbreak caused by the constructi...