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Pneumonic Plague Transmission, Moramanga, Madagascar, 2015

Beza Ramasindrazana 1 Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana 1 Jean Marius Rakotondramanga 2 Dawn N. Birdsell 3 Maherisoa Ratsitorahina 4 Minoarisoa Rajerison 1, *
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1 Unité Peste - Plague Unit [Antananarivo, Madagascar]
2 IPM - Unité d'Epidémiologie [Antananarivo, Madagascar]
3 Northern Arizona University [Flagstaff]
4 Université d'Antananarivo
Abstract : During a pneumonic plague outbreak in Moramanga, Madagascar, we identified 4 confirmed, 1 presumptive, and 9 suspected plague case-patients. Human-to-human transmission among close contacts was high (reproductive number 1.44) and the case fatality rate was 71%. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the Yersinia pestis isolates belonged to group q3, different from the previous outbreak.
Keywords : Madagascar Yersinia pestis bacteria bubonic plague outbreak pneumonic plague transmission vector-borne infections
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Beza Ramasindrazana, Voahangy Andrianaivoarimanana, Jean Marius Rakotondramanga, Dawn N. Birdsell, Maherisoa Ratsitorahina, et al.. Pneumonic Plague Transmission, Moramanga, Madagascar, 2015. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017, 23 (3), pp.521 - 524. ⟨10.3201/eid2303.161406⟩. ⟨pasteur-01653354⟩

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