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Plague and Other Yersinia Infections (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Plague and Other Yersinia Infections (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: Current Topics in Infectious Disease
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During the past decade, plague infections have persisted with
undiminished importance in foci of the Americas, Africa, and Asia,
while infections caused by the other yersiniae were recognized only
during this decade as important agents of diarrheal and
appendicitislike outbreaks in Europe, North America, and Japan. The
dramatic rise of plague was abetted by the military conflict in
Vietnam in the latter 1960s and persisted into the 1970s. During
these years more Vietnamese people probably died of plague than
American ser- vicemen died of combat injuries. In the United States
during these same years, the numbers of human cases of plague
increased severalfold owing to well- entrenched endemic foci in the
sylvatic rodent species of the southwestern states. , In the latter
1960s, microbiologists had changed the name of the plague bacillus
from Pasteurella pestis to Yersinia pestis. The other two
pathogenic species, Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia
pseudotuberculosis, were known causes of mesenteric lymphadenitis
and were believed to be rare. However, there originated a strong
interest in these diseases in the European countries of Sweden,
Finland, Belgium, and France. Yersiniae were frequently dis-
covered in persons with diarrhea and acute abdominal pain
simulating ap- pendicitis. This discovery sparked a worldwide surge
of scientific interest in the genus Yersinia. Previous writings
about the yersiniae have rarely considered plague and nonplague
yersiniae together. Diseases caused by these bacteria, although
their epidemiological patterns and clinical pictures are very
different, have some striking similarities.
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