pneumonic plague

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Noun1.pneumonic plague - a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
pest, pestilence, pestis, plague - a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
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pneu·mon·ic plague

n. peste neumónica, forma de peste con síntomas de esputos sanguíneos, escalofríos y fiebre (calentura) alta que puede ser letal.
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The more virulent form is pneumonic plague, which can be transmitted between humans through coughing.
We describe a case of canine pneumonic plague that resulted in [greater than or equal to] 116 potential human exposures.
Aradigm's inhaled ciprofloxacin formulations are also product candidates for treatment of patients with cystic fibrosis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria, and for the prevention and treatment of high threat and bioterrorism infections, such as inhaled tularemia, pneumonic plague, melioidosis, Q fever and inhaled anthrax.
Critique: Plague in Paradise: The Black Death in Los Angeles, 1924 is a historical novel set during the documented 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles.
Officials fear people who died of the Black Death were dug up, spreading pneumonic plague, the highly contagious airborne version which always kills if untreated.
(29) Anti-F1 and anti-V Abs protect mice against experimental pneumonic plague, but this protection is highly dependent on IFN-[gamma] and TNF-[alpha] production.
Mr Dujarric says UN humanitarian officials in the Indian Ocean island nation reported 1,032 cases as of Wednesday, 67% of which were pneumonic plague.
Summary: Pneumonic plague has hit a popular travel destination and the UAE is warning residents not to visit
The latest award continues funding of the center, with individual projects on cancer, Lyme disease, pneumonic plague and chlamydial infection.
The human population is divided into six subgroups: the subgroup of people who have not contracted the disease, to be referred to as susceptible and denoted by [S.sub.H], but may get it if they come into contact with [I.sub.HS], [I.sub.HP], [I.sub.RS], [I.sub.HP], [I.sub.F], or A; people who have the disease but have not shown any symptom and are incapable of transmitting the disease to be referred to as exposed and denoted by [E.sub.H]; those who are infected and capable of transmitting the disease are divided into three subgroups: there are those who have bubonic plague denoted by [I.sub.HB], those with septicemic plague denoted by [I.sub.HS], and those who have pneumonic plague disease denoted by [I.sub.HP].
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