Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs

Jan Kehrmann; Walter Popp; Battumur Delgermaa; Damdin Otgonbayar; Tsagaan Gantumur; Jan Buer; Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh

doi:10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412

Emerging Microbes and Infections (Jan 2020)

Two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs

Jan Kehrmann,
Walter Popp,
Battumur Delgermaa,
Damdin Otgonbayar,
Tsagaan Gantumur,
Jan Buer,
Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh

Affiliations

Jan Kehrmann: Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Walter Popp: HyKoMed, Dortmund, Germany
Battumur Delgermaa: National Center for Zoonotic Disease Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Damdin Otgonbayar: National Center for Zoonotic Disease Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Tsagaan Gantumur: MedClean LLC, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Jan Buer: Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh: National Center for Zoonotic Disease Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2020.1807412
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1878 – 1881

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ABSTRACTMarmots are an important reservoir of Yersinia pestis and a source of human plague in Mongolia. We present two fatal cases of plague after consumption of raw marmot organs and discuss the distribution of natural foci of Y. pestis in Mongolia.

Published in Emerging Microbes and Infections

ISSN: 2222-1751 (Online)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Science: Microbiology
Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/temi

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