Plague (medical condition): A rare but serious bacterial infection involving the bacterium Yersinia Pestis which can be carried by rodents and transmitted to humans by flea bites or through direct contact with an infected animal.
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Plague: Any epidemic disease with a high death rate.
Plague: (1) Any disease of wide prevalence or of excessive mortality. (2) An acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and marked clinically by high fever, toxemia, prostration, a petechial eruption, lymph node enlargement, pneumonia, or hemorrhage from the mucous membranes; primarily a disease of rodents, transmitted to humans by fleas that have bitten infected animals. In humans the disease takes one of four clinical forms: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, pneumonic plague, or ambulant plague SYN: pest, pestilence (1), pestis. [G. plege, a stroke, a wound; L. plaga, a stroke, injury]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Plague: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague).
Source: WordNet 2.1
Plague: An acute infectious disease caused by YERSINIA PESTIS that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.
Source: MeSH 2007
Plague is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Plague, or a subtype of Plague,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when if affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Plague as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
Plague (medical condition): See Plague (disease information).
»Introduction: Plague
»Symptoms of Plague
»Treatments for Plague
Plague: Plague is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. (Source: excerpt from CDC Plague Home Page: DVBID)
Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. (Source: excerpt from CDC Plague Home Page: DVBID)
These medical disease topics may be related to Plague:
Source - NIH
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source - MeSH 2007
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Plague into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
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