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septicemic plague - an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

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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Pneumonic plague is uncommon in dogs; most dogs with plague have bubonic or septicemic plague and signs of fever, lethargy, and peripheral lymphadenopathy (7).

Pneumonic Plague in a Dog and Widespread Potential Human Exposure in a Veterinary Hospital, United States

Pneumonic plague is one of three forms of plague (the others are septicemic plague and bubonic plague) and is hypothesized to be responsible for the "Black Death" that depopulated Europe in the 1300's.

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We generally assume that all individuals from each population are susceptible to the disease, the recovered individuals confer temporary immunity and return to be susceptible again, and the infectious are all individuals with either bubonic plague or pneumonic or septicemic plague.

The Effect of Seasonal Weather Variation on the Dynamics of the Plague Disease

pestis was initially passed from person to person--say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person--and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report in the Oct.

Plagues plagued the Bronze Age: Yersinia pestis infected people long before Black Death

Septicemic plague, accounting for approximately 10% of cases, can occur from a flea bite or from direct contact with infectious fluids; infection spreads directly through the bloodstream with no localizing signs.

Human plague--United States, 2015

Bubonic plague can progress to septicemic plague if bacteria move from the lymphatic into the circulatory system.

Chapter 3 Bacterial zoonoses

Three forms of plague are recognized in cats and people: bubonic plague, septicemic plague and pneumonic plague.

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More than half of the cases (eight) were bubonic plague, while the rest were primary septicemic plague. Two patients developed secondary plague pneumonia.

Human plague cases total 13, most since 1994

Septicemic plague, bubonic plague, and pneumonic plague were all part of the problem.

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which lymphadenopathy is not apparent, may progress to septicemic plague with dissemination by the blood to diverse parts of the body including the meninges.

Plague alert information sheet on plague