No evidence of deer mouse involvement in plague (Yersinia pestis) epizootics in prairie dogs

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-337

  Salkeld, Daniel J ^a,b,c   Stapp, Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IUCN The World Conservation Union   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lyme disease; Rodent borne; Tick(s); Vector borne; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INFESTATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PEROMYSCUS; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FLEAS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; PLAGUE; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE;

AETHECA WAGNERI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CTENOCEPHALIDES CANIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; OROPSYLLA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 45549105582     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2007.0199     Document Type: Article

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