Enzootic plague foci, Algeria.

ABSTRACT: In Algeria, PCR sequencing of pla, glpD and rpoB genes found Yersinia pestis in 18/237 (8%) rodents of five species, including Apodemus sylvaticus, previously undescribed as pestiferous; and disclosed three new plague foci. Multiple spacer typing confirmed a new Orientalis variant. Rodent survey should be reinforced in this country hosting reemerging plague.

SUBMITTER: Malek MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4354914 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature