Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. scientific concepts
5. biological concepts
6. [health and related concepts]
7. health-related concepts
8. disease
9. communicable disease

Anotations

Scope note:

The most common form of an acute infectious disease caused by Yersina pestis that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world.