title: Plague from eating raw camel liver.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: King Saud University College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. abinsaeed2001@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Abdulaziz A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Bin Saeed
authors.forename: Nasser A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Al-Hamdan
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Fontaine
mesh_terms: 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*