Prevalence and abundance of fleas in black-tailed prairie dog burrows: Implications for the transmission of plague (Yersinia pestis)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 616-621

  Salkeld, Dan J ^a,b   Stapp, Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IUCN The World Conservation Union   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; BURROW; CANID; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; FLEA; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FLEA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OROPSYLLA HIRSUTA; OROPSYLLA TUBERCULATA CYANOMURIS; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PLAGUE; PRAIRIE DOG; PRECIPITATION; RODENT; SIPHONAPTERA; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; COLORADO; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FLEAS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; PREVALENCE; RAIN; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; OROPSYLLA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 47349132329     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1368R.1     Document Type: Article

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