Levofloxacin cures experimental pneumonic plague in African green monkeys.
BACKGROUND: Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague, is considered a potential bioweapon due to rapid lethality when delivered as an aerosol. Levofloxacin was tested for primary pneumonic plague treatment in a nonhuman primate model mimicking human disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: Twenty-four African Gree...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS),
2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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