Demonstration of early-phase transmission of yersinia pestis by the mouse flea, aetheca wagneri (Siphonaptera: Ceratophylidae), and implications for the role of deer mice as enzootic reservoirs

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1160-1164

  Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Holmes, Jennifer L ^a   Schotthoefer, Anna M ^a   Vetter, Sara M ^a   Montenieri, John A ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Aetheca wagneri; Deer mice; Peromyscus maniculatus; Plague; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFESTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; RODENT DISEASE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FLEAS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEROMYSCUS; PLAGUE; RODENT DISEASES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

AETHECA WAGNERI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOSYLLA SEGNIS; MUS; OROPSYLLA MONTANA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PULICIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 56749155698     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[1160:DOETOY]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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