Fact sheets

The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.

Public Health action

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date plague notification data

• General infectious disease reports 

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

Exclusion

Cases: exclude
Contacts: chemoprophylaxis and surveillance for 7 days; those who refuse chemoprophylaxis should be maintained in strict isolation with careful surveillance for 7 days.

Case definition

Only confirmed cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence only.

Laboratory definitive evidence

Isolation of Yersinia pestis.