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Latest News  

Oct 8, 2008
New Item Wildlife group lists diseases that global warming may spur

Oct 16, 2007
New Item US funds work on drugs for plague, tularemia, anthrax

Mar 30, 2007
New Item Study: Drug-resistant plague may signal health threat

Dec 11, 2006
New Item CDC rates hospital bioterrorism preparedness

Oct 19, 2006
New Item Suspected plague killed 42 in Congo, WHO says

Jun 26, 2006
New Item Aid group seeks help fighting plague in Congo

Jun 14, 2006
New Item Suspected plague kills 100 in Congo, WHO says

Aug 19, 2005
New Item Research sheds light on plague agent and potential vaccine

May 27, 2005
New Item Plague outbreak highlighted ongoing problem in Africa

Apr 21, 2005
New Item US, UK, Canada to jointly test plague vaccines

Mar 15, 2005
New Item WHO reports 130 suspected plague cases in Congo

Mar 4, 2005
New Item 57 plague cases found in Congo, WHO reports

Mar 2, 2005
New Item Congo's plague outbreak smaller than initially feared

Feb 18, 2005
New Item Pneumonic plague outbreak in Congo sparks WHO response

Sep 15, 2004
New Item Plague organism shed genes as it grew more lethal

Aug 2, 2004
New Item Ongoing plague outbreak reported in Congo

Mar 25, 2004
New Item Vaccine prevents flea-borne plague in mice

Jan 17, 2003
New Item Report of missing plague specimens in Texas was false alarm

May 2, 2002
New Item Single gene change enabled plague bacterium to ride in fleas

Oct 9, 2001
New Item Plague genome suggests organism evolved from gut to blood pathogen

      
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New Item The human-bacterial pathogen protein interaction networks of Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, and Yersinia pestis
From Aug 9 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Plague outbreaks in prairie dog populations explained by percolation thresholds of alternate host abundance
From Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Jul 26

 
New Item Whole-genome sequencing reveals distinct mutational patterns in closely related laboratory and naturally propagated Francisella tularensis strains
From Jul 19 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Evaluation of the humoral immune response in mice orally vaccinated with live recombinant attenuated Salmonella enterica delivering a secreted form of Yersinia pestis PsaA
From Vaccine, published online Jul 13

 
New Item Efficacy and safety of a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vectored plague vaccine in mice
From Vaccine, published online Jul 12

 
New Item Rapid and sensitive detection of Yersinia pestis using amplification of plague diagnostic bacteriophages monitored by real-time PCR
From Jun 28 PLoS ONE

 
New Item Protection against pneumonic plague following oral immunization with a non-replicating vaccine
From Vaccine, published online Jun 19

 
New Item Effective, broad spectrum control of virulent bacterial infections using cationic DNA liposome complexes combined with bacterial antigens
From May 27 PloS Pathog

 
New Item Plague: Current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment
CIDRAP authored overview updated Apr 29 with new research


 
New Item Fine-scale identification of the most likely source of a human plague infection
From Oct 2009 Emerg Infect Dis

 
New Item Bubonic and pneumonic plague--Uganda, 2006
From Jul 24, 2009, MMWR

 
New Item Plague outbreak in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Rapid communications in Jul 2, 2009, Eurosurveill

 
New Item Spatial analysis of plague in California: niche modeling predictions of the current distribution and potential response to climate change
From Int J Health Geographics, published online Jun 28, 2009

 
New Item Primary pneumonic plague contracted from a mountain lion carcass
From Clin Infect Dis, published online Jun 24, 2009

 
New Item Development and evaluation of two simple, rapid immunochromatographic tests for the detection of Yersinia pestis antibodies in humans and reservoirs
From PLoS Negl Trop Dis, published online Apr 28, 2009

 
New Item Inactivation of avirulent Yersinia pestis in Butterfield's phosphate buffer and frankfurters by UVC (254 nm) and gamma irradiation
From Apr 2009 J Food Prot

 
New Item Plague: Current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment
CIDRAP-authored overview, updated Mar 24, 2009, with new research


 
New Item Adenovirus-mediated delivery of an anti-V antigen monoclonal antibody protects mice against a lethal Yersinia pestis challenge
From Apr 2009 Infect Immun

 
New Item Different pathologies but equal levels of responsiveness to the recombinant F1 and V antigen vaccine and ciprofloxacin in a murine model of plague caused by small- and large-particle aerosols
From Apr 2009 Infect Immun

 
New Item Protective immunity in mice achieved with dry powder formulation and alternative delivey of plague F1-V vaccine
From Clin Vaccine Immunol, published online Mar 4, 2009

 
New Item Validation of cooking times and temperatures for thermal inactivation of Yersinia pestis strains KIM5 and CDC-A1122 in irradiated ground beef
From Mar 2009 J Food Prot

 
New Item Pneumonic plague pathogenesis and immunity in brown Norway rats
From Mar 2009 Am J Pathol

 
New Item Yersinia pestis IS1541 transposition provides for escape from plague immunity
From Infect Immun, published online Feb 23, 2009

 
New Item Bioterrorism for the respiratory physician
From Jan 2009 Respirology

 
New Item Venetian rule and control of plague epidemics on the Ionian Islands during 17th and 18th centuries
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Dec 23, 2008

 
New Item An IL-12 DNA vaccine co-expressing Yersinia pestis antigens protects against pneumonic plague
From Jan 1, 2009, Vaccine

 
New Item Serologic survey of the sentinel animals for plague surveillance and screening for complementary diagnostic markers to F1 antigen by protein microarray
From Nov 2008 Am J Trop Med Hyg

 
New Item Scavenging by mammalian carnivores on prairie dog colonies: implications for the spread of plague
From Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis, published online Oct 22, 2008