Flea diversity as an element for persistence of plague bacteria in an east African plague focus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Eisen, Rebecca J ^a   Borchert, Jeff N ^a   Mpanga, Joseph T ^b   Atiku, Linda A ^b   MacMillan, Katherine ^a   Boegler, Karen A ^a   Montenieri, John A ^a   Monaghan, Andrew ^c   Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

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

^b UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT; FLEA; FLEA INFESTATION; LIFESPAN; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA; UGANDA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84859947800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035598     Document Type: Article

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