Exposure of small rodents to plague during epizootics in black-tailed prairie dogs

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 724-730

  Stapp, Paul ^a   Salkeld, Daniel J ^a,b   Eisen, Rebecca J ^c   Pappert, Ryan ^c   Young, John ^c   Carter, Leon G ^c   Gage, Kenneth L ^c   Tripp, Daniel W ^d   Antolin, Michael F ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IUCN The World Conservation Union   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cynomys ludovicianus; Epizootics; Onychomys leucogaster; Plague; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; MUS; ONYCHOMYS; ONYCHOMYS LEUCOGASTER; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 52949123659     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-44.3.724     Document Type: Article

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