Transmission of flea-Borne zoonotic agents

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-82

  Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bartonella; Flea; Murine typhus; Plague; Rickettsia felis; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BARTONELLOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; TULAREMIA; TYPHUS; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; SIPHONAPTERA; TULAREMIA; TYPHUS, ENDEMIC FLEA-BORNE; YERSINIA PESTIS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 83455213203     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100717     Document Type: Article

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