Plague outbreaks in prairie dog populations explained by percolation thresholds of alternate host abundance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 14247-14250

  Salkeld, Daniel J ^a   Salathé, Marcel ^a,c   Stapp, Paul ^b   Jones, James Holland ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multihost disease transmission; Pathogen percolation; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOST SELECTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOUSE; ONYCHOMYS LEUCOGASTER; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; YERSINIA PESTIS; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ASIA; FLEA; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SCIURIDAE;

AFRICA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ASIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FLEAS; MICE; PLAGUE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCIURIDAE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; HENDRA VIRUS; ONYCHOMYS; ONYCHOMYS LEUCOGASTER; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 77956283696     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002826107     Document Type: Article

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