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Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Synopsis

Pneumonic Plague Outbreak, Northern Madagascar, 2011

Vincent Richard, Julia M. RiehmComments to Author , Perlinot Herindrainy, Rahelinirina Soanandrasana, Maherisoa Ratsitoharina, Fanjasoa Rakotomanana, Samuel Andrianalimanana, Holger C. Scholz, and Minoarisoa Rajerison
Author affiliations: Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal (V. Richard); Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany (J.M. Riehm, H.C. Scholz); German Center for Infection Research, Munich (J.M. Riehm, H.C. Scholz); Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Anatananarivo, Madagascar (P. Herindrainy, R. Soanandrasana, M. Ratsitoharina, F. Rakotomanana, M. Rajerison); Ministry of Public Health, Anatananarivo (S. Andrianalimanana)

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Table 2

Characteristics of 41 contacts and plague patients during pneumonic plague outbreak, northern Madagascar, 2011*

Contact/relationship Symptoms Chemoprophylaxis Serologic result† WHO case definition Village Characteristic
1–5, family None Yes – NA Ankatakata Houses A and B
6, family None Yes – NA Antsakoabe House C, husband of patient 9
7, family None Yes – NA Antsakoabe House C, children of patient 9
8 and 9, family None Yes – NA Antsakoabe House C
10, family None No – NA Tsaratanana House D
11–13, family None Yes – NA Ankiganyo House E
14, family None Yes + Presumptive Ankiganyo House E, mother of patient 18
15 and 16, family None Yes – NA Ambarakaraka House F
17–24, other None Yes – NA Mandrivary Met with patient 10
25, other Cough No + Presumptive Mandrivary Carried patient 3
26, other None Yes – NA Antafiabe Shared bed with patient 11
27–31, other None Yes – NA Antafiabe Met with patient 11
32–34, other Mild Yes – NA Several Attended funerals
35–41, other None Yes – NA Several Attended funerals

*Contacts of plague patients were divided into family contacts (persons who lived in the same household with an infected person) and other contacts (persons spent time with a patient or approached a persons who died). WHO, World Health Organization.
†For Yersinia pestis.

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