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Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021
Synopsis

Distribution and Characteristics of Human Plague Cases and Yersinia pestis Isolates from 4 Marmota Plague Foci, China, 1950–2019

Zhaokai He1, Baiqing Wei1, Yujiang Zhang1, Jun Liu1, Jinxiao Xi1, Dunzhu Ciren1, Teng Qi1, Junrong Liang, Ran Duan, Shuai Qin, Dongyue Lv, Yuhuang Chen, Meng Xiao, Rong Fan, Zhizhong Song, Huaiqi Jing, and Xin WangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (Z. He, J. Liang, R. Duan, S. Qin, D. Lv, M. Xiao, R. Fan, H. Jing, X. Wang); Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Control and Prevention, Xining, China (B. Wei); Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China (Y. Zhang); Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Comprehensive Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hohhot, China (J. Liu); Gansu Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Lanzhou, China (J. Xi); Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, China (D. Ciren); Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, China (T. Qi); Shenzhen Nanshan Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, Shenzhen, China (Y. Chen); Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming, China (Z. Song)

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Figure 7

Ecology and surveillance of marmots in the Marmota sibirica plague focus of the Hulun Buir Plateau, Inner Mongolia, 1950–2019. A) Tarbagan marmot (M. sibirica), the predominant marmot species in this focus. Photograph by Jun Liu. B) Average density of this species in the focus area. Tarbagan marmots host Oropsylla silantiewi fleas, a known vector of Yersinia pestis, but no Y. pestis isolate has been collected from humans, animal hosts, or insect vectors in this focus since 1926.

Figure 7. Ecology and surveillance of marmots in the Marmota sibirica plague focus of the Hulun Buir Plateau, Inner Mongolia, 1950–2019. A) Tarbagan marmot (M. sibirica), the predominant marmot species in this focus. Photograph by Jun Liu. B) Average density of this species in the focus area. Tarbagan marmots host Oropsylla silantiewi fleas, a known vector of Yersinia pestis, but no Y. pestis isolate has been collected from humans, animal hosts, or insect vectors in this focus since 1926.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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