Estudos bacteriológicos e sorológicos de um surto de peste no Estado da Paraíba, Brasil

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Alzira Maria Paiva Almeida²  Darci Pascoal Brasil²  Nilma Cintra Leal²  Maria Eliane Bezerra De Melo²  Rosa Virgínia Batista Do Rêgo¹  Célio Rodrigues De Almeida² 

[1] ,FIOCRUZ Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães Departamento de MicrobiologiaRecife,Brasil

关键词: plague outbreak;    Yersinia pestis;    humans;    rodents;    domestic carnivors;    bacteriology;    serology;    surto de peste;    Yersinia pestis;    pacientes;    roedores;    carnívoros domésticos;    bacteriologia;    sorologia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02761989000200015

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

During a plague outbreak in the Borborema Plateu focus (Paraíba), bacteriological and serological studies were carryed out in material from 452 patients (48 positives), 1,938 rodents and other small mammals (75 positives), 4,756 dogs (141 positives) and 2,047 cats (57 positives) obtained from 41 counties (out of which, 21 produced positive samples). Twenty Yersinia pestis strains isolated from material from 3 patients ans 17 rodents, displayed biochemical reactions, virulence factors, antibiotic susceptibility and animal experimental pathogenicity similar to those observed in strains previously isolated. According to our findings this recent plague outbreak did not exhibite different factors from those observed during prior outbreaks in other plague foci in the northeast of Brazil.

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