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  Plague Resource Guide

Major Sites

• CDC: Plague Information
  The federal government's major online resource on plague, from the Centers for Disease Control.
• ACP-ASIM Bioterrorism Resource Center: Quick Facts about Plague
  Transmission, syndromes, diagnosis and treatment information from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
• Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies: Plague
  Links from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy: Plague
  Images, news, guidelines, and clinical pathway flowchart from the University of Minnesota research program.
• IDSA: Plague
  Clinical, epidemiology and laboratory information from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
• MedlinePlus: Plague
  Information resources for the general public plus links to literature searches in MEDLINE.
• Plague -  Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness

history resources

• Natural History - Plague
  A brief history from the CDC.
• Images from the History of the Public Health Service
  Photograph and brief history of plague in San Francisco from the National Library of Medicine.
• Yersinia pestis
  Information and links from the "Virtual Museum of Bacteria."

state and local information

• Virginia Department of Health: Plague
  Fact Sheet.
• Virginia Department of Emergency Management - Plague
  Questions and answers for the public.

Books, Journals & Audiovisual Materials

To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by the VCU Libraries, use the VCU Library Catalog (DCAT).  DCAT allows you to search by title, author, keyword and subject.  To determine the appropriate subject heading for a topic, consult the lists of Medical Subject Headings or Library of Congress Subject Headings in the libraries.  Possible subject headings include plague, yersinia, yersinia infections and yersinia pestis.

• Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control
  Communicable Surveillance and Response (CSR), World Health Organization document. (PDF)
• Prevention of Plague
  CDC - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR, 1996;45(RR-14):1-15. (PDF)

Full-text Book Chapters and Selected Journal Articles

• Consensus Statement: Plague as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management
  JAMA 2000 May 3;283(17):2281-2290.
• Yersinia Pestis: Etiologic Agent of Plague
  Clinical Microbiology Reviews 1997 January 10(1):35-66. (PDF)
• Plague: Merck Manual
  Etiology, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
• Plague - Chapter 23.
  In: Zatjchuk R, ed. Textbook of Military Medicine. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Walter Reed Medical Center;1997:479-502.(PDF)  
• Biological Agents as Weapons 2: Anthrax and Plague
  Medical Journal of Australia 2002 Jun 17;176(12):605-8
• Medline Search - Plague
  For recent journal literature from the Medline database, using the MEDLINEplus preformatted search.

other useful sites

Images

• CDC Plague-related Images - Fleas, plague skin manifestations and bacteria.
• Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy: Plague - Images from JAMA, Public Health Image Library, and the CDC.

PDA Resources

• ACP-AIM Resources - Decision support tools and documents from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. See link to Quick Facts about Plague.
• PDA Applications - Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections.

Organization

• World Health Organization Collaboration Center - Plague - Describes the CDC WHOCC program.