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Any widespread contagious diseaseThyroid Disorders Examination and Laboratory tests. Read more ... » associated with a high death rate.  An often fatal disease caused by Yersinia pestis; the natural hosts are ground squirrels, wild rodents and rats, and the vector is the rat flea.

Bacterial InfectionsPLAGUE Caused byGram-Negative Yersinia pestis

 

PLAGUE

• plague is one of the most horrible disease at old time,
• now a days this plague is almost eliminated, but in some countries of world some cases are detected at time to time.
• Plague is an acuteThyroid Disorders Examination and Laboratory tests. Read more ... » febrile illness caused by infection with Yersinia pestis.

Yersinia pestis

 

• The plague bacteria is transmitted to humans by flea bite, or by contact, or by airborne droplets from in­fected wild rodents (rats).

plague bacteria is transmitted to humans by rats

• there is most common carrier is this flea, which lies at rats body, which causesThyroid Disorders Examination and Laboratory tests. Read more ... » a advance role in distributing of this dangerous disease.
• The different forms of plagues are bubonic, septice­mic and pneumonic.

plague bacteria is transmitted to humans by flea

 

• Plague is characterized by feverThyrotoxic crisis or Thyroid storm. Read more ... » and sometimes shockShock Presentation Risk Factors Pathogenesis Management Treatment. Read more ... », multiorgan failure and death.
• It can also cause meningitis, endophthalmitis, and lymphadenitis.

signs and symptoms of plague

 

signs and symptoms of plague

classification of plague — Bubonic plague

• There are chills, fever, myalgias, arthralgias, head­ache, with tender lymph nodes proximal to site of entry of plague bacillus. The inguinal, axillary and cervical lymph nodes are commonly involved.

Septicemic plague

Septicemic plague

 

• This is a progressive and serious gram-negativeBacterial Infections by Gram-Negative with diagnosis Treatment Signs and symptoms. Read more ... » in­fection. It presents with nauseaNausea and Vomiting. Read more ... », vomitingNausea and Vomiting. Read more ... », fever, di­arrhoea and pain. It can be fatal.

Pneumonic plague signs and symptoms

 

• in pneumonic plague there is clear findings are present in x-ray
• X-ray playes a major role in differential diagnosis of this pneumonic plague from other chest disease,

Pneumonic plague x-ray findings

 

Pneumonic plague

 

• There is sudden onset of fever, chills, headacheHeadache. Read more ... », myalgias, dyspnoea, chest painApproach to Chest Pain Differential diagnosis of chest pain. Read more ... », coughInfluenza SARS and Whooping Cough Signs and Symptoms with Diagnosis and Treatment. Read more ... » and expecto­ration, hemoptysis, circulatory collapse and even death.

 

complete cycle of  Yersinia pestis plague

 

complete cycle of  Yersinia pestis plague

 

Diagnosis of plague  –

• It is by examinationHow to take good medical history & examination. Read more ... » of specimen of blood,
• lymph node aspirate,
• sputum,
• pulmonary aspirates,
• or CSF, for the organisms.

Treatment of plague

• Streptomycin,
• Gentamycin,
• tetracycline,
• Doxycycline,
• Chloramphanecol.

plague vaccine –

• A vaccine made either from a crude fraction of killed plague bacilli, Yersinia pestis, or synthetically from recombinant proteins.
• It is rarely used, except in a laboratory or for field workers in areas where plague is endemic.