Plague Publications

• A Quick Guide to Plague. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Available in Spanish (PDF, 721 KB) and English (PDF, 1.4 MB).
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevention of plague. Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR, 1996;45(RR-14):1-15 (PDF, 319 KB).
• Dennis DT and Gage JL. Plague. In: Armstrong D and Cohen J (eds.) Infectious Diseases. London: Mosby, Armstrong, and Cohen, 1999.
• Dennis, DT, Gratz N, Poland JD, and Tikhomirov E. Plague Manual: Epidemiology, distribution, surveillance and control. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1999.
• Campbell GL, Dennis DT. Plague and other Yersinia infections. In: Kasper DL, et al; eds. Harrison’s principles of internal medicine. 14th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1998:975-83.
• Gage KL. Plague. In: Colliers L, Balows A, Sussman M, Hausles WJ, eds. Topley and Wilson’s microbiology and microbiological infections, vol 3. London: Edward Arnold Press, 1998:885-903.
• Perry RD, Fetherston JD. Yersinia pestis -- etiologic agent of plague. Clin Microbiol Rev, 1997;10:35-66.
• Fritz CL, Dennis DT, Tipple MA, Campbell GL, McCance CR, and Gubler DJ. Surveillance for Pneumonic Plague in the United States During an International Emergency: A Model for Control of Imported Emerging Diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1996;2(1):30-36
• Ramalingaswani V. Special section: The plague epidemic of 1994 (India). Current Science, 1996;71(10):781-806.
• Butler T. Plague and other Yersinia infections. New York: Plenum Press, 1983.
• Barnes AM. Surveillance and control of bubonic plague in the United States. Symp Zool Soc Lond, 1982;50:237-270.
• Poland JD, Barnes AM. Plague. In Steele J (ed): Handbook of Zoonoses. Boca Raton, FL:CRC Press, 1979:515-559.

Additional Reading

• McNeill WH. Plagues and Peoples. New York: Anchor/Doubleday Publishers, 1998 ( ISBN: 0385121229)
• Benenson AS. Control of Communicable Diseases Manual 16th edition. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 1995 (ISBN: 0875532225)
• Garrett L. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. New York: Penguin Books, 1995 (ISBN: 0140250913)
• Nourse A. The Fourth Horseman. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1985 (ISBN: 0523424329)