Are local plague endemicity and ecological characteristics of vectors and reservoirs related? A case study in north-east Tanzania

Current Zoology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 200-211

  Laudisoit, Anne ^a,b   Neerinckx, Simon ^b,c   Makundi, Rhodes H ^d   Leirs, Herwig ^b,e   Krasnov, Boris R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^e Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

^f BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flea; Landscape connectivity; Opportunistic; Plague; Rodent; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 65549101129     PISSN: 00017302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/55.3.200     Document Type: Article

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