Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs

Marmots are an important reservoir of Yersinia pestis and a source of human plague in Mongolia. We present two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs and discuss the distribution of natural foci of Y. pestis in Mongolia.

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Date Issued:
21.08.2020
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20210209-123447-1
DOI:
10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412
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English
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Plague; Mongolia; marmot; epidemiology; sepsis
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610 Medical sciences Medicine
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Faculty of Medicine, Essen University Hospital, Institute of Medical Microbiology
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The publication of this article was supported by the Publication Fund of the University of Duisburg-Essen.

 

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Jan Kehrmann, Walter Popp, Battumur Delgermaa, Damdin Otgonbayar,
Tsagaan Gantumur, Jan Buer & Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh (2020) Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs. Emerging Microbes & Infections, 9:1, 1878-1880, DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412

Published online: 21 Aug 2020

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