Potential mammalian reservoirs in a bubonic plague outbreak focus in Mbulu District, northern Tanzania, in 2007

Mammalia

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-257

  Makundi, Rhodes H ^a   Massawe, Apia W ^a   Mulungu, Loth S ^a   Katakweba, Abdul ^a   Mbise, Thomas J ^b   Mgode, Georgies ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b TROPICAL PESTICIDES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Bubonic plague; ELISA; Rodents; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE SPREAD; FLEA; MAMMAL; SERUM;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MANYARA; MBULU; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALIA; GRAPHIURUS MURINUS; LEMNISCOMYS STRIATUS; LOPHUROMYS FLAVOPUNCTATUS; MAMMALIA; MASTOMYS; MASTOMYS NATALENSIS; MUS MINUTOIDES; PRAOMYS DELECTORUM; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); SORICIDAE; XENOPSYLLA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 53549125535     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: 18641547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/MAMM.2008.038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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