Plague was one of the deadly diseases of the yester years. Epidemics have occurred even a few years back. There are three main types of plague:

1. Bubonic plague
2. Pneumonic plague
3. Septicemic plague

Bubonic plague manifests with inguinal lymph node swellings (bubo) and hence the name.

1. Surgery – MCQ 29 – A patient has carcinoma of right tongue on its lateral border
2. Antibiotics used in treatment of plague
3. Anatomy – MCQ 55 – Lymphatics of uterus
4. Causative organism of plague