Ningxia confirms one bubonic plague case
China CDC Wkly. 2021 Dec 24; 3(52): 1109–1112.
Human Plague Case Diagnosed in Ningxia Tracked to Creature Reservoirs — Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, People's republic of china, 2021
Jianwei Gao,1, & Yanhong Hu,2, & Cheng Ju,3, & Jingyuan Liu,4, & Yiting Wang,five, 6 Jiangtao Ma,1 Xiaona Shen,5, 6 Fang Liu,two Jin Guo,5, half dozen Xinxin Yu,2 Wen Zhang,v, 6 Shuyi Wang,2 Kun Li,v, half dozen Zhongbing Zhang,2 Biao Kan,v, six Wenrui Wang,2 Xianbin Cong,iii Mengguang Fan,ii Wei Li,5, 6 Kuidong Shao, 
3, * Tao Zhang, 1, * Jianyun Li, two, * and Yumeng Wang five, 6, *
Jianwei Gao
1 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Ningxia Hui Democratic Region, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Communist china
Yanhong Hu
two General Eye for Disease Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Prc
Cheng Ju
3 The Base for Control and Prevention of Plague and Brucellosis, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Baicheng, Jilin, China
Jingyuan Liu
iv Beijing Ditan Infirmary, Uppercase Medical University, Beijing, China
Yiting Wang
5 National Plant for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, Communist china
6 State Cardinal Laboratory of Infectious Affliction Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Jiangtao Ma
one Middle for Disease Control and Prevention of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China
Xiaona Shen
5 National Institute for Catching Illness Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, Cathay
six State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Fang Liu
2 Full general Center for Disease Command and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Jin Guo
5 National Institute for Catching Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Eye for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
6 State Fundamental Laboratory of Communicable diseases Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Xinxin Yu
ii General Eye for Disease Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Democratic Region, China
Wen Zhang
v National Institute for Catching Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Heart for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, Red china
vi State Central Laboratory of Communicable diseases Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Shuyi Wang
2 General Middle for Illness Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Democratic Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Democratic Region, Communist china
Kun Li
5 National Constitute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
6 State Key Laboratory of Communicable diseases Prevention and Control, Beijing, People's republic of china
Zhongbing Zhang
two General Eye for Disease Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Biao Kan
5 National Institute for Catching Disease Command and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, Prc
half dozen State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, Mainland china
Wenrui Wang
2 General Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, People's republic of china
Xianbin Cong
3 The Base for Control and Prevention of Plague and Brucellosis, Chinese Eye for Affliction Control and Prevention, Baicheng, Jilin, Prc
Mengguang Fan
2 General Middle for Disease Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Democratic Region, China
Wei Li
5 National Institute for Catching Affliction Command and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
6 Land Key Laboratory of Infectious Illness Prevention and Control, Beijing, Cathay
Kuidong Shao
3 The Base for Control and Prevention of Plague and Brucellosis, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Baicheng, Jilin, Communist china
Tao Zhang
1 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Cathay
Jianyun Li
ii General Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Yumeng Wang
5 National Found for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Affliction Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
half-dozen State Fundamental Laboratory of Infectious disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Received 2021 Aug 28; Accepted 2021 Dec 21.
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What is already known most this topic?
There were a total of 4 and iii man plague cases that occurred in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 2019 and 2020, respectively, with 1 and 2 deaths in 2019 and 2020 respectively, which indicated that plague still poses a significant threat to homo health especially for farmers, shepherds, or residents living in native plague foci.
What is added past this report?
On Baronial 14, 2021, 1 patient from the Otog Qi (County) in the Inner Mongolia sought treatment in Yinchuan Urban center (the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region), where the patient was diagnosed with bubonic plague and secondary septicemic plague. The genetic source tracking of associated Yersinia pestis strains indicated that human plague cases were infected from beast reservoirs in Inner Mongolia.
What are the implications for public health do?
Major threats of plague to residents living in native plague foci are the infection past bites of bacterium-bearing fleas or straight contact with diseased or dead plague-infected animals. And the ability of early diagnostic is very disquisitional for county-level hospital in native plague foci.
Keywords: Plague, Yersinia pestis, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia
On August xx, 2021, a human being plague case (55-twelvemonth-sometime woman) suffered bubonic plague with secondary septicemic plague was reported from General Infirmary of Ningxia Medical University (GHNMU) in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Ningxia), Cathay. Effective patient's handling, together with enhanced rodents plague surveillance and control, was performed in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Inner Mongolia). The genome-broad single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis was used in source tracing based on phylogenetic relationship of Yersinia pestis (Y. pestis) strains in this outcome. The Y. pestis strain isolated from the patient in Ningxia and the strain from local Meriones unguiculatus(K. unguiculatus) that were institute well-nigh the patients' residences were clustered into the same lineage (2.MED3q). Such observations indicated that human plague cases originated from local reservoirs.
INVESTIGATION AND RESULTS
On Baronial xx, 2021, a human plague case suffering from bubonic plague with secondary septicemic plague was reported from GHNMU in Ningxia. The patient was a 55-yr-old female herdsman who lived in Wulan Hamlet, Otog Qi (County), Erdos City in Inner Mongolia. On August 14 and 15, 2021, the patient presented with the onset of nausea and vomiting with low claret pressure level and sought handling in a village clinic but the patient'south condition deteriorated further. On Baronial 16, 2021, the patient was admitted to the local canton hospital in Pingluo County of Ningxia for high fever (forty °C) with weakness and vomiting. Later on, on August 17 later on, the patient was transferred to GHNMU in Yinchuan Metropolis and was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for septic stupor symptoms with left inguinal lymphadenitis. During this period, no cough, chest pain, or breathlessness was observed. Thereafter, the blood of patient was conducted a bacteria culture and examined through biochemical analyzer in GHNMU, and the results of biochemical analyzer reported that bacteria in the patient's blood was Yersina genus. Such results led the clinical doctors in GHNMU began to suspect the patient might suffer from plague and reported to the Ningxia CDC on August 20.
This human plague case was confirmed via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) positive results in lymph node aspirates and blood past the Ningxia CDC within four hours, targeting the caf1, pla, and YPO0392 genes of Y. pestis (ane ), also as the positive results of the colloidal gold-immunochromatography analysis and reverse indirect hemagglutination assay (RIHA) test targeting the F1 antigen in lymph node aspirates and blood. The titer of RIHA for the lymph node aspirates and claret were ane∶64 and 1∶128, respectively. In addition, the bacteria isolated from blood were identified equally Y. pestis by Gram staining, microscopy, and a phage lysis exam. While, the PCR assays for the patient were negative in the sputum and throat specimens of the patient.
Based on clinical manifestations and laboratory examination results, the patient was diagnosed with bubonic plague with secondary septicemic plague and she was treated with antibiotics (streptomycin and ciprofloxacin) and recovered on September 6, 2021.
One Y. pestis (Ningxia 2021) isolated from the 55-year-old patient was sequenced by Ningxia CDC. Meanwhile, ane strain (Neimeng 2021) isolated from One thousand. unguiculatus 80 meters abroad from the firm of the patient was isolated and sequenced by Inner Mongolia CDC. Under the source tracing mechanism of the Chinese Pathogen Identification Net (CPIN), the patient-related (Ningxia 2021), the strain from G. unguiculatus in Inner Mongolia (Neimeng 2021),Y. pestis strains isolated from Inner Mongolia in 2019, together with Y. pestis genomes in CPIN were compared past the genome-broad SNPs (ii ). As shown in Figure 1A, the strain isolated from the patient and the strain isolated from M.unguiculatus 80 meters away from the houses of patient were clustered as two.MED3q lineage, a lineage inherently belonging to theY. pestis in the Erdos PlateausM. unguiculatus plague focus in Inner Mongolia in 2019 (ii ).
Geographical distribution and phylogenetic relationship of patients and various epizootics in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. (A) Phylogenetic relationship based on whole genomic SNPs in Y. pestis 2. MED3 population. (B) Geographical distribution of phylogenetic lineages in Inner Mongolia.
Notation: The maximum likelihood tree in Figure 1A was constructed by the concatenated SNP using MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version half-dozen.0. Tamura K, Stecher One thousand, Peterson D, Filipski A, and Kumar S, 2013). Strains in colored circumvolve on evolutionary trees isolated from the sites with same color on the map.
In this Y. pestis infection event, the patient was a shepherd, and the family of the patient lived in a comparatively independent house that was located on the Ordos Plateaus One thousand. unguiculatus plague focus in Inner Mongolia. There were a full of six families together with the patient's family within a three-kilometer radius away from the business firm of the patient. Co-ordinate to reports from local residents, in the past two months, several dead Chiliad. unguiculatus had been found in the region before the case of human plague occurred. Because in that location were a total of iv and three human plague cases occurred in the Inner Mongolia in 2019 and 2020, respectively, with 1 and two deaths in 2019 and 2020, respectively, and in that location were ii Y. pestis strains isolated from M. unguiculatus plague focus in Otog Qi in 2019, thus regulations were performing in Inner Mongolia that the local residents should be alerted to dead reservoirs and were required to report to local CDCs once the affected areas were found. The family of patient merely had moved from Ningxia and been employed past a local inhabitant for only one year, then they did not know of the regulations and neglected to written report dead rat phenomenon. Other 5 families' residents reported the abnormal dead rats miracle, and local professional staff conducted rodenticides in residential surrounding areas, but nothing less than the areas patient lived in was left.
Later the human plague was confirmed, an enhanced rodent surveillance campaign was performed. A total of two recently dead One thousand. unguiculatus were found, and the Y. pestis strain was isolated from each expressionless rat, with one just eighty meters away from the house of patient; in addition, over seventy fleas were plant on the rat. In addition, in that location were a large number of fleas inhabiting those reported reservoirs. Such an observation indicated that serious Thousand. unguiculatus plague epizootics with enough of fleas existed in the patient'southward living areas and that the patient might take been infected from a flea seize with teeth.
PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE
Starting time, before the 55-twelvemonth-old patient was diagnosed equally having plague, she sought treatment in 4 clinics or hospitals in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia. Therefore, it is critical to strengthen professional person grooming for local clinicians in order to recognize and identify the disease earlier and be alerting to various forms of plague. In addition, the patient suffered from bubonic plague with secondary septicemic plague; dissimilar the pneumonic plague, the bubonic and the septicemic plague has limited the ability of person-to-person transmission (3 ). Therefore, more reasonable public health measures should be recommended in afflicted areas.
Secondly, since the human plague cases occurred in 2019 and 2020, the local CDCs had offered the local farmers or shepherds a Wellness Box [which included insect repellent (DEET), thermometer and report card et al.]. Respective educational efforts should exist enhanced to promote behaviors such every bit wearing long pants and applying DEET to anyone engaged in outdoor activities in plague focus area; reporting rodent die-offs; avoiding direct contact with ill or dead wild animals (e.g., foxes or rabbits); using insecticides and rodenticides to eliminate the fleas and the host animals simultaneously, or insecticide be priority to creature plague control.
Thirdly, the Ordos PlateausM. unguiculatus plague focus in Inner Mongolia is besides adjacent to Ningxia and Shanxi provincial-level administrative divisions (PLADs) in Mainland china (Figure 1B). At that place are no obvious geographic barriers between the Thousand. unguiculatus plague focus in Inner Mongolia and its counterpart area in adjacent PLADs, so the joint prevention and command, including early joint warning and take a chance advice are necessary.
In addition, in the process of responding to the human plague events in Communist china, the clinics commonly responsible for finding and treating patients, while the diverse level CDCs confirmed the diagnosis according to testify based on laboratory assays. In this outcome, the biochemical analyzer in GHNMU reported that bacteria in the patient's claret were of the Yersinia genus, fifty-fifty though it did not definitively that the sample was Y. pestis (due to lacking a respective database of bacteria), the clinicians began to suspect that the patient might accept plague. It was the 2d fourth dimension that such situation had occurred in Prc as the offset occurred in Yunnan Province in 2016 (ane ). In fact, with the gains in technical competence in hospitals, there are many techniques such every bit the genome sequencing, biochemical analyzers, and mass-spectrometric techniques, that can firstly give the clinicians the clues to plague.
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The M. unguiculatus plague focus in Inner Mongolia tin can exist divided into ii parts: the Ordos Plateaus and the desert steppe of the Ulanqab plateaus. Previous studies provided insight into the relationship between plague intensity and the level of precipitation in the semi-arid grasslands of Inner Mongolia (4 ). i.e., Plague epizootics depend on changes in the density and distribution of local Yard. unguiculatus (3 ), while elevated rainfall facilitates increasing population levels of M. unguiculatus (4 ). A dandy increase in the local rodent population was an obvious feature in Inner MongoliaM. unguiculatus plague focus in 2019 (ii ). In 2019, a insufficiently higher density (3.1/hmtwo) of the major host in this focus than the historical boilerplate level (2/hmtwo) on the Inner Mongolia Plateau (5 ) was observed. In 2021, drought was the master feature in Ordos Plateaus. The density of the master host reached to 4.46/hm2, and loftier flea density is a major characteristic of Otog Qi in August, such as the percentage of host infested flea was 52.63% with host-flea index was 3.93 in Otog Qi in August 2021. Similar situations could exist observed in the next Pingluo county, the per centum index and host-flea index were 59.26% and 2.15, respectively, in August (local plague surveillance data). Such ecological factors, i.e., higher flea density, also aroused a more potent animal plague epidemic with more adventure of human infection.
EPIZOOTICS OF PLAGUE IN 2018 TO 2021 IN INNER MONGOLIA
Plague is primarily a disease of wild rodents. Animal-to-animal transmission is mediated by flea bites, while human infection is often an accidental consequence, including being infected by the bites of escaped bacterium-bearing fleas. Continuous animal plague had occurred in previous years (in 2018, 2019, and 2020) in the M. unguiculatus Plague Focus in Inner Mongolia, and corresponding surveillance results indicated that animal plague epizootics were withal agile in the M. unguiculatus Plague Focus in Inner Mongolia (National Plague Surveillance written report).
The Y. pestis strains inhabiting Inner Mongolia belong to two.MED3 population. While Y. pestis strains in 2.MED3 population were further divided into various lineages (2.MED3a–p) in Inner Mongolia or adjacent PLADs such equally Shanxi, Hebei, and Ningxia in China (6 ) (Figure ane). The Y. pestis strains isolated in 2018 and 2019 in Inner Mongolia could be divided into 3 lineages (2.MED3m, 2.MED3q, two.MED3r) (2 ). Previous research establish lineage 2.MED3m was a major lineage generally and affected most of the geographical area in Inner Mongolia M. unguiculatus plague focus in 2018 and 2019 (ii). However, the patient-related stain was 2.MED3q lineage, which was mainly located in the Ordos Plateaus Yard. unguiculatus Plague Focus in Inner Mongolia (2).
Conflicts of interest
No conflicts of involvement.
Acknowledgements
Mu Guo from Yunnan Institute for Endemic Disease Control and Prevention; Colleagues from China CDC, Ningxia CDC, and Inner Mongolia CDC.
Funding Statement
The Primal Bio-rubber Research and Development Technology Project (2021YFC1200200), The Key Scientific and Technology Project of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2021ZD0006)
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