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Descriptor
English
:
Plague
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Peste
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Peste
Synonyms
English
:
Bubonic Plague
Meningeal Plague
Pneumonic Plague
Pulmonic Plague
Tree Number:
C01.252.400.310.980.745
Definition
English
:
An acute infectious
disease
caused by
YERSINIA PESTIS
that affects
humans
, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic
plague
is the most common form.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
Pasteurella pestis or
Yersinia pestis
infection
only;
swine
plague
=
HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA
/vet (IM) +
SWINE DISEASES
(IM) but do not confuse with African
swine
plague
( = AFRICAN
SWINE
FEVER)
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
blood
cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced
classification
congenital
complications
diet therapy
diagnosis
drug therapy
economics
ethnology
embryology
enzymology
epidemiology
etiology
genetics
history
immunology
metabolism
microbiology
mortality
nursing
pathology
prevention & control
physiopathology
parasitology
psychology
radiography
rehabilitation
radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy
surgery
therapy
transmission
urine
ultrasonography
veterinary
virology
Record Number:
11362
Unique Identifier:
D010930
Occurrence in VHL
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