The surveillance of plague among rodents and dogs in Western Iran

Saber Esmaeili; Ahmad Mahmoudi; Parisa Esmaeili; Zohreh Yousefi Ghalejoogh; Alireza Mordadi; Ahmad Ghasemi; Ali Mohammadi; Amin Bagheri; Aria Sohrabi; Mina Latifian; Minoarisoa Rajerison; Javier Pizarro-Cerda; Ehsan Mostafavi

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0011722

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The surveillance of plague among rodents and dogs in Western Iran

Saber Esmaeili,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Ahmad Mahmoudi,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Iran
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Parisa Esmaeili,

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6427-8840

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Zohreh Yousefi Ghalejoogh,

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Alireza Mordadi,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Ahmad Ghasemi,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Microbiology, Research Center of Reference Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran
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Ali Mohammadi,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health and National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Amin Bagheri,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Aria Sohrabi,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Mina Latifian,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Minoarisoa Rajerison,

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institute Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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Javier Pizarro-Cerda,

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yersinia Research Unit, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
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Ehsan Mostafavi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mostafaviehsan@gmail.com

Affiliations National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-517X

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The surveillance of plague among rodents and dogs in Western Iran

Saber Esmaeili,
Ahmad Mahmoudi,
Parisa Esmaeili,
Zohreh Yousefi Ghalejoogh,
Alireza Mordadi,
Ahmad Ghasemi,
Ali Mohammadi,
Amin Bagheri,
Aria Sohrabi,
Mina Latifian

Published: November 10, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0011722

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