Plague from eating raw camel liver.
We investigated a cluster of 5 plague cases; the patients included 4 with severe pharyngitis and submandibular lymphadenitis. These 4 case-patients had eaten raw camel liver. Yersinia pestis was isolated from bone marrow of the camel and from jirds (Meriones libycus) and fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) captured at the camel corral.
Bin Saeed
Abdulaziz A
AA
King Saud University College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. abinsaeed2001@yahoo.com
Al-Hamdan
Nasser A
NA
Fontaine
Robert E
RE
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002162:Camelus / Q000382:microbiology*; D002648:Child; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005516:Food Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D010930:Plague / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*