Factors Affecting the Seasonal Abundance of Ground Squirrel and Wood Rat Fleas (Siphonaptera) in San Diego County, California

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 790-804

  Lang, James D ^a  

^a S Diego Co Dept of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Factors; Seasonal abundance; Sylvatic fleas

Indexed keywords

HOPLOPSYLLUS ANOMALUS; MACROTIS; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA FUSCIPES; NEOTOMA LEPIDA; ORCHOPEAS SEXDENTATUS; OROPSYLLA; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS BEECHEYI;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEA; INFESTATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; SCIURIDAE; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; MALE; RATS; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS;

EID: 0030237279     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/33.5.790     Document Type: Article

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