Yersinia pestis - old and new challenges in humans and in animals.
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The influence of environmental, dynamics in the evolution of the vectors and the susceptibility of the human organism are the most important factors for the infectious and epidemic process of Y. pestis. Travel, tourism, business etc. play a significant role in the emergence and spread of communicable, especially in the so-called “emerging diseases, incl. plague. Persistence of the plague epizootic process is a function of dynamic interactions between flea vectors of disease and infected animals- reservoirs. The plague epidemic has followed climatic changes over the years. Increased humidity and temperature, associated with the global warming, could lead to an increase in the population of the reservoirs by increasing food supplies and flea population and could activate the epidemic process of plague, over the coming decades.
Source: Trakia Journal of Sciences
Authors: I. Mladenova-Hristova, Ilia Tsachev
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2114944563