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1. Introduction
2. Presentation contents
3. Fleas
4. Flea characteristics
5. Public health importance of fleas
6. Plague-background and epidemiology
7. Three pandemics
8. Public health concern
9. Pathogen
10. Plague transmission
11. Classic flea-borne transmission paradigm
12. Re-evaluating the classic paradigm
13. Epidemiology (1)
14. Epidemiology (2)
15. Factors affecting the number of human cases
16. Plague-clinical aspects
17. Clinical presentations
18. Bubonic plague
19. Distribution of bubo locations
20. Septicemic plague (1)
21. Septicemic plague (2)
22. Pneumonic plague (1)
23. Pneumonic plague (2)
24. Other clinical manifestations
25. Diagnosis
26. Presumptive lab diagnosis
27. Confirmed lab diagnosis
28. F1 antigen rapid detection tests
29. Case management and treatment
30. Antimicrobial resistant strains
31. Plague-control and prevention
32. Control and prevention
33. Human control and prevention
34. Flea and rodent control and prevention
35. Bioterrorism and plague
36. Other flea-borne infections
37. Murine typhus (1)
38. Murine typhus (2)
39. Murine typhus - clinical findings
40. Murine typhus - diagnosis and treatment
41. Rickettsia felis
42. Bartonella spp. and fleas
43. Acknowledgments

Topics Covered

• Overview of fleas
• Background and epidemiology of plague
• Clinical aspects of plague, including manifestations, diagnostics, and treatment
• Control and prevention of plague
• Other flea-borne infections

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Series:

• Vector-Borne Diseases

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Microbiology

Therapeutic Areas:

• Infectious Diseases

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 26, 2010

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Kevin S. Griffith has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.