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Latest News  

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

Mar 30
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 17, 2001
New Item Plague genome suggests organism evolved from gut to blood pathogen

      
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New Item Neutralization of Yersinia pestis-mediated macrophage cytotoxicity by anti-LcrV antibodies and its correlation with protective immunity in a mouse model of bubonic plague
From Mar 20 Vaccine

 
New Item Characterization of Yersinia pestis isolates from natural foci of plague in the Republic of Georgia and their relationship to Y pestis isolates from other countries
From Clin Microbiol Infect, published online Feb 21

 
New Item yadBC of Yersinia pestis, a new virulence determinant for bubonic plague
From Feb Infect Immun

 
New Item Resistance of Yersinia pestis to complement-dependent killing is mediated by the Ail outer membrane protein
From Feb Infect Immun

 
New Item Plague: past, present, and future
From Jan 15 PLoS Med

 
New Item Plague: Current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment
Comprehensive CIDRAP-authored overview, updated Nov 1 with new research


 
New Item Macrophage activation redirects Yersinia-infected host cell death from apoptosis to caspase-1-dependent pyroptosis
From Nov 2 PLoS Pathog

 
New Item Concomitant administration of Yersinia pestis specific monoclonal antibodies with plague vaccine has a detrimental effect on vaccine mediated immunity
From Oct 16 Vaccine

 
New Item Comparison of hand-held test kits, immunofluorescence microscopy, ELISA, and flow cytometric analysis for rapid presumptive identification of Yersinia pestis
From Oct J Clin Microbiol

 
New Item Plague reemergence in Algeria after 50 years, 2003
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Aug 24

 
New Item Climatically driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks
From Aug 22 Proc Biol Soc

 
New Item Impact of resistance selection and mutant growth fitness on the relative efficacies of streptomycin and levofloxacin for plague therapy
From Aug Antimicrob Agents Chemother

 
New Item Yersinia pestis CO92(delta)yopH is a potent live-attenuated plague vaccine
From Clin Vaccine Immunol, published online Jul 25

 
New Item A comparison of immunogenicity and protective immunity against experimental plague by intranasal and/or combined with oral immunization of mice with attenuated Salmonella serovar Typhimurium expressing secreted Yersinia pestis F1 and V antigen
From FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol, published online Jul 19

 
New Item Residence-linked human plague in New Mexico: a habitat-suitability model
From Jul Am J Trop Med Hyg

 
New Item Comparison of 2 antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis for the treatment of infection with Yersinia pestis delivered by aerosol in a mouse model of pneumonic plague
From J Infect Dis, published online Jul 19

 
New Item Impact of resistance selection and mutant growth fitness on the relative efficacies of streptomycin and levofloxacin for plague therapy
From Aug Antimicrob Agents Chemother

 
New Item Plague: Current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment
CIDRAP-authored overview, updated Jul 6 with new research


 
New Item Evaluation of combinatorial vaccines against anthrax and plague in a murine model
From Jun 11 Vaccine