Publications

Campbell GL, and Dennis DT. Plague and other Yersinia. In: Fauci, AS, et al. (eds.), Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14^th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, pp 975-83; 1997.

Campbell, GL, and Dennis DT. Plague and other Yersinia. In: Fauci, AS, et al. (eds.), Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 15^th Edition. New York, McGraw-Hill, pp 993-1001, 2001

CDC. Pneumonic Plague - Arizona, 1992. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 41:40:737-739;1994.

Campbell GL, and Hughes J. Plague in India: a new warning from an old nemesis. Ann. Intern. Med. 122:151-153, 1994.

CDC. Plague - United States, 1992. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 41:42:787- 783; 1994. (Authored anonymously by WHOCC-Plague staff.)

CDC. Plague - United States 1993-1994. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 43:13:242-246;1994. (Authored anonymously by WHOCC-Plague staff.)

CDC. Human Plague - India, 1994. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 43:38:689-691;1994. (Authored anonymously by WHOCC-Plague staff.)

CDC. Update: Human Plague - India, 1994. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 43:39:722-723; 1994. (Authored anonymously by WHOCC-Plague staff.)

CDC. Update: Human Plague - India, 1994. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 43:41:761-762; 1994. (Authored anonymously by WHOCC-Plague staff.)

CDC. Fatal Human Plague - Arizona and Colorado, 1996. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 46:27:617-620;1997. (Authored anonymously by WHOCC-Plague staff.)

Childs J., Shope RE, Fish D, Meslin FX, Peters CJ, Johnson K, Debess E, Dennis DT, and Jenkins S. Emerging zoonoses. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 4:453-454, 1998.

Chu MC, Dong XQ, Zhou X, Garon CF. A cryptic 19-kilobase plasmid associated with U.S. isolates of Yersinia pestis: a dimer of the 9.5-kilobase plasmid. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 59;679-686; 1998.

Chu MC. Laboratory Manual of Plague Diagnostic Tests. U.S. Dep't. Health Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA and World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 1-129, 2000.

Cully JF, Carter LG, Gage KL. New records of sylvatic plague in Kansas. J. Wildlife Dis. 36:389-392; 2000.

Craven RB and Dennis DT. Plague. In: Wallace, RB (ed.) Macy-Roseau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Stamford, Conn.: Appleton & Lange, pp 309-13, 1998.

Dennis DT. Plague. In: Rake RE, Bops ET, (EDS.), Conn's Current Therapy 2001. New York, W.B. Saunders Company, pp 115-117, 2001

Dennis DT. Plague. In: Guardant RLL, Krogstand DJ, Maguire J, et al. (eDS.) Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens, and Practice. Churchill Livingston, Philadelphia, pp 506-16, 1999.

Dennis DT and Gage KL. Plague. In: Armstrong D and Cohen J. (eDS.) Infectious Diseases. Mosby, Armstrong, and Cohen, London, Chapter 6, pp 34.5-34.11; 1999.

Dennis DT Plague. In: Strickland TG, et al. (eDS.) Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8^th edition. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, pp 402-11, 1999.

Dennis DT Plague as an Emerging Disease. In: Scheld WM, Craig WA, and Hughes, JM, eDS., Emerging Infections 2. Washington, DC: ASM Press, pp 169-83, 1998.

Dennis DT Appendix A: A primer on plague. In: Tucker JB (ed.) Procedures for Investigating Suspicious Outbreaks of Infectious Disease in a Noncooperative Environment, Proceedings of a workshop held at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, May 12-13, 1998. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, pp 47-56, 1998.

Dennis DT, Hughes JM. Multidrug Resistance in Plague. (Editorial) N Engl J Med 337(10):702-704, 1997.

Dennis DT, Meier FA. Plague. IN: Horsburgh CR and Nelson AM. (eDS.), Pathology of Emerging Infections. Washington, DC: ASM Press, pp 21-47, 1997.

Dennis DT, Orloski-Snider K. Plague! IN: 1996 Medical and Health Annual. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago IL., pp 160-91, 1995.

Dennis DT. Plague, Method of. IN: Rake RE, ed., Conn's Current Therapy. W.B. Saunders, Co., Philadelphia, PA., pp. 160-91, 1995.

Dennis DT. Plague in India (editorial). BMJ, 309:893-4, 1994.

Doll JM, Zeitz PS, Ettestad P, Bucholtz AL, Davis T, and Gage KL. Cat-transmitted fatal pneumonic plague in a person who traveled from Colorado to Arizona. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 51:109-114, 1994.

Dong XQ, Lindler LE, and Chu MC. Complete DNA sequence and analysis of an emerging cryptic plasmid isolated from Yersinia pestis. Plasmid. 43:144-148, 2000.

Engelthaler DM, Gage KL, Montenieri JM, Chu MC, Carter LG. PCR detection of Yersinia pestis in fleas: Comparison with mouse inoculation. J. Clin. Microbiol. 37:1980-1984; 1999.

Engelthaler DM, Gage KL. Quantities of Yersinia pestis in fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae, Ceratophyllidae, and Hystrichopsyllidae) collected from areas of known or suspected plague activity. J. Med. Entomol. 37:422-426; 2000.

Engelthaler DE, Hinnebusch BJ, Rittner CM, and Gage KL. Quantitative Competitive PCR as a method for exploring flea-Yersinia pestis dynamics. Am. J. Trop, Med. Hyg. 62:552-560; 2000.

Fritz CL, Dennis DT, Tipple MA, Campbell GL, McCance CR, Gubler DJ. Surveillance for pneumonic plague in the United States during an international emergency: A model for control of imported emerging diseases. EID, 2:30-6, 1996.

Gabastou, JM, Proano J, Vimos A, Jaramillo G, Hayes E, Gage K, Chu M, Zaki S, Bowers J, Guillemard C, Tamayo H, and Ruiz A. An outbreak of plague including cases with pneumonic infection, Ecuador, 1998. Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg. 94:387-391, 2000.

Gage KL, Dennis DT, Orloski KA, Ettestad P, Brown TL, Reynolds PJ, Pape WJ, Fritz CL, Carter LG., and Stein JD. Cases of Cat-Associated Human Plague in Western US, 1977-1998. Clin Inf Dis. 30:893-900; 2000.

Gage KL. Plague Surveillance. WHO Plague Manual. World Health Organization, Geneva, pp 135-165, 1999.*

Gage KL. National Health Services in Prevention and Control. In: WHO Plague Manual. World Health Organization, Geneva, pp 167-171, 1999.*

Gage, KL Plague. In: Collier L, Balows A, and Sussman M (general eds.); Hauler W.J. and Sussman M (vol. eds.). Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections, Ninth Edition. Volume 3, Bacterial Infections. Edward Arnold, Ltd. London. 885-904. 1998.

Gage KL, Maupin GO, Montenieri J, Piesman J, Dolan MC, and Panella NA. Flea (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae, Hystrichopsyllidae) and tick (Acarina: Ixodidae) control on wood rats using host-targeted liquid permethrin in bait tubes. J. Med. Entomol. 34: 46-51, 1997.

Gage KL, Dennis DT, Tsai TF. Prevention of Plague. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR 45:RR-14, 1996.

Gage KL, Ostfeld RS, and Olson JG. Nonviral vector-borne zoonoses associated with mammals in the United States. J. Mammal. 76(3):695-715, 1995.

Gage KL, Thomas RE, and Montenieri JA. The role of predators in the ecology, epidemiology, and surveillance of plague in the United States. Proc. 16th Vert. Pest Conf. Univ. California, Davis. 200-206, 1994.

Gage K.L., Lance SE, Dennis DT, and Montenieri JA. Human plague in the United States: A review of cases from 1988-1992. Border Epidemiol. Bull. 6:1-10, 1992.

Hinnebusch BJ, Gage KL , and Schwan T. Estimation of vector infectivity rates for plague by means of a standard curve-based competitive PCR method to quantify Yersinia pestis in fleas. Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 58:562-569. 1998.

Inglesby TV, Dennis DT, Henderson DA, Bartlett JG, Ascher MS, Eitzen E, Fine, AD,
Friedlander AM, Hauer J, Koerner JF, Layton M, McDade J, Osterholm MT, O'Toole T, Parker G, Perl TM, Russell PK, Schoch-Spana M, and Tonat K. Plague as a biological weapon. JAMA 283:2281-2290, 2000.

Leighton FA, Artsob HA, Chu MC, and Olson JG. A serological survey of rural dogs
and cats on the southwestern Canadian prairie for zoonotic pathogens. Can. J. Publ. Hlth. 92:67-71, 2001.

Levy CE and Gage KL. Plague in the United States 1995-1996, with a brief review of the disease and its prevention. Infections in Medicine. 16:54-64, 1999.

Moore CG and Gage KL. Collecting methods for vector surveillance. In: Marquardt, W.C. and B.J. Beaty, eds. Biology of Disease Vectors, Colorado University Press. 471-492, 1996.

Orloski KA and Eidson M. Yersinia pestis infection in three dogs. J Am Vet Medical
Assn. 207:316-8, 1995.

Parmenter RR, Yadav EP, Parmenter CA, Ettestad P, and Gage KL. Incidence of plague associated with increased winter-spring precipitation in New Mexico, USA. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 61:814-821; 1999.

Piesman J and Gage KL. Bacterial and rickettsial diseases. In:. A Textbook on Public
Health and Veterinary Problems Caused by Arthropods. Eldridge BF and Edman JD, ed. Medical Entomology Kluwer Academic Publications, Dordrecht, Netherlands. Pp. 377-413.

Poland JD and Dennis DT. Diagnosis and Clinical Manifestations. In: WHO Plague Manual. World Health Organization, Geneva, pp 43-54, 1999.*

Poland JD and Dennis DT. Treatment of Plague. In: WHO Plague Manual. World Health Organization, Geneva, pp 55-62, 1999.*

Poland JD and Dennis DT. Plague. IN: Evans AS and Brachman PS. (eDS.) Bacterial Infections of Humans: Epidemiology and Control. Plenum Medical Book Company, New York, pp. 545-558, 1998.

Pratt HD, Maupin GO, and Gage KL. Fleas of public health importance and their control. In: Vector-Borne Disease Control. (2nd ed.). U.S. Dept. HHS/PHS/CDC, Atlanta, Georgia. 55, 1994.

Titball RW, Eley S, Williamson ED and Dennis DT. Plague. In: Plotkin S and Mortimer EA. (eDS.) Vaccines, 3^rd edition. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, pp 734-42, 1999.

Wilmoth, BA, Chu MC, and Quan TJ. Identification of Yersinia pestis by BBL Crystal Enteric/ Nonfermenter identification system. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:2829-2830, 1996.

Manuscripts In Press or Submitted

Biggins, D, and Kosoy M. Influences of introduced plague Yersinia pestis on North American mammal: implications from ecology of plague in Asia. J Mammalogy, In press.

Enscore, RE, Biggerstaff BJ, Brown TL, Fulgham RF, Reynolds J, Engelthaler DM, Levy CE, Parmenter RR, Montenieri JA, Cheek JE, Grinnell RK, Ettestadt PJ, and Gage KL. Modeling Relationships Between Climate and the Frequency of Human plague Cases in the Southwestern US, 1960-97. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., In press.

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