Cases of Cat-Associated Human Plague in the Western US, 1977-1998
Open Access
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 30 (6) , 893-900
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313804
Abstract
Exposure to cats infected with Yersinia pestis is a recently recognized risk for human plague in the US. Twenty-three cases of cat-associated humanKeywords
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