Seroprevalence rates and transmission of plague (Yersinia pestis) in mammalian carnivores

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-239

  Salkeld, Dan J ^a,b,c   Stapp, P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IUCN The World Conservation Union   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivore; Coyote; Plague reservoir

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BEAR; CANIDAE; CARNIVORE; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FELIDAE; FLEA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAMMAL; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCYONIDAE; REVIEW; RODENT; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARNIVORA; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FLEAS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; NORTH AMERICA; PLAGUE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUSTELIDAE; PROCYONIDAE; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); URSIDAE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 33751208296     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2006.6.231     Document Type: Review

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