What's eating you? cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis), part 1: Clinical features and role as a disease vector

Cutis

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 231-236

  Elston, Dirk M ^a   Do, Huy ^b  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CAT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PLAGUE; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION;

ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY; ANIMALS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; CATS; FLEAS; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 77953966198     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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