Volume 23, Number 9—September 2017
Research
Patterns of Human Plague in Uganda, 2008–2016
Joseph D. Forrester, Titus Apangu, Kevin Griffith, Sarah Acayo, Brook Yockey, John Kaggwa, Kiersten J. Kugeler, Martin Schriefer, Christopher Sexton, C. Ben Beard, Gordian Candini, Janet Abaru, Bosco Candia, Jimmy Felix Okoth, Harriet Apio, Lawrence Nolex, Geoffrey Ezama, Robert Okello, Linda Atiku, Joseph Mpanga, and Paul S. Mead
Table
Case status, clinical form, and mortality rate among human plague cases, West Nile region, Uganda, 2008–2016*
| Clinical form |
Case status, no. patients (mortality rate, %) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confirmed |
Probable |
Suspected |
Total |
|
| Bubonic | 66 (26) | 26 (8) | 123 (7) | 215 (13) |
| Pneumonic | 6 (50) | 5 (80) | 7 (14) | 18 (44) |
| Septicemic |
6 (0) |
6 (33) |
8 (0) |
20 (10) |
| Total | 78 (26) | 37 (22) | 138 (7) | 253 (15) |
*Outcome was known for 253 of 255 total cases. The 2 suspected bubonic cases with unknown outcomes were excluded.
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