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Revision as of 22:06, 18 December 2012

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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 ==Secondary Prevention==
-====Prophylactic Antibiotics====
-Health authorities advise that antibiotics be given for a brief period to people who have been exposed to the bites of potentially infected rodent fleas (for example, during a [[plague]] outbreak) or who have handled an animal known to be infected with the [[plague]] bacterium. Such experts also recommend that antibiotics be given if a person has had close exposure to a person or an animal (for example, a house cat) with suspected plague pneumonia.
-Persons who must be present in an area where a plague outbreak is occurring can protect themselves for 2 to 3 weeks by taking [[antibiotics]]. The preferred antibiotics for prophylaxis against plague are the [[tetracyclines]] or the [[sulfonamides]].
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