Vector control improves survival of three species of prairie dogs (Cynomys) in areas considered enzootic for plague

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-26

  Biggins, Dean E ^a   Godbey, Jerry L ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^b   Carter, Leon G ^b   Montenieri, John A ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Conservation; Cynomys; Deltamethrin; Enzootic; Epizootic; Flea control; Oropsylla; Plague; Prairie dog; Pulex; Survival; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DELTAMETHRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; ECTOPARASITE; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; FLEA; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; VECTOR CONTROL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEAS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PLAGUE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LEUCURUS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; CYNOMYS PARVIDENS; IXODIDA; OROPSYLLA; PULEX; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77249116249     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2009.0049     Document Type: Article

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