New Microbes and New Infections (Mar 2015)

Enzootic plague foci, Algeria

  • M.A. Malek,
  • A. Hammani,
  • A. Beneldjouzi,
  • I. Bitam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2014.11.003
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. C
pp. 13 – 16

Abstract

Read online

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.

Keywords