TY - JOUR AU - Apangu, Titus AU - Griffith, Kevin AU - Abaru, Janet AU - Candini, Gordian AU - Apio, Harriet AU - Okoth, Felix AU - Okello, Robert AU - Kaggwa, John AU - Acayo, Sarah AU - Ezama, Geoffrey AU - Yockey, Brook AU - Sexton, Christopher AU - Schriefer, Martin AU - Mbidde, Edward Katongole AU - Mead, Paul T1 - Successful Treatment of Human Plague with Oral Ciprofloxacin T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 553 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved ciprofloxacin for treatment of plague (Yersina pestis infection) based on animal studies. Published evidence of efficacy in humans is sparse. We report 5 cases of culture-confirmed human plague treated successfully with oral ciprofloxacin, including 1 case of pneumonic plague. KW - plague KW - Yersinia pestis KW - human KW - treatment KW - ciprofloxacin KW - vector-borne diseases KW - infectious diseases KW - bacterial infection KW - FDA approval KW - vector-borne infections KW - bacteria KW - zoonoses KW - Uganda DO - 10.3201/eid2303.161212 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/3/16-1212_article ER - End of Reference