Plague-CDCreport

Plague

ICD-10 A20
1.7.1 Identification

A specific zoonosis disease characteristic with rapid onset of fever, chills headache, severe malaise prostration. The disease can occur in 3 forms: 1) Bubonic form: extreme painful swelling of lymph glands (buboes); 2) Pneumonic form: cough with blood- stained sputum, chest pain, and difficult breathing; and 3) Sepsis: circulatory collapse, coagulopathy, hemorrhage, respiratory distress, shock, and organ failure, leading to death.
The disease involves rodents (reservoir) and their fleas (vector) which transfer the bacterial infection to various animals and to people.
Laboratory diagnosis: microscopic finding of the gram-negative bipolar coccobacilli in clinical specimen (bubo aspirate, sputum, tissue or blood) or antigen or antibody detection in clinical specimens using IFAT, ELISA
Laboratory diagnosis: microscopic finding of the gram-negative bipolar coccobacilli in clinical specimen (bubo aspirate, sputum, tissue or blood) or antigen or antibody detection in clinical specimens using IFAT, ELISA