Yersinia pestis infection medical therapy
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Assistant Editors-In-Chief: Esther Lee, M.A.; João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]
Overview
According to treatment experts, a patient diagnosed with suspected plague should be hospitalized and medically isolated. Laboratory tests should be done, including blood cultures for plague bacteria and microscopic examination of lymph gland, blood, and sputum samples. Antibiotic treatment should begin as soon as possible after laboratory specimens are taken. Effective antibiotics are streptomycin, gentamicin (used when streptomycin is not available), tetracyclines and chloramphenicol. (used for critically ill patients, or rarely for suspected neuro-involvement)
Medical Therapy
When a diagnosis of human plague is suspected on clinical and epidemiological grounds, appropriate specimens for diagnosis should be obtained immediately and the patient should be started on specific antimicrobial therapy without waiting for a definitive answer from the laboratory.
Suspect plague patients with evidence of pneumonia should be placed in isolation, and managed under respiratory droplet precautions.
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