Plague in Arab Maghreb, 1940-2015: a review

• Main Authors: Maliya Alia Malek (Author), Idir eBITAM (Author), Michel eDRANCOURT (Author)
• Format: Bog
• Udgivet: Frontiers Media S.A., 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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We reviewed the epidemiology of 49 plague outbreaks which resulted in about 7,612 cases in 30 localities in the Arabic Maghreb (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) over 75 years. Between 1940 and 1950, most cases recorded in Morocco (75%) and Egypt (20%), resulted from plague imp...