Yersinia pestis: Examining wildlife plague surveillance in China and the USA

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-109

  Bevins, Sarah N ^a   Baroch, John A ^a   Nolte, Dale L ^a   Zhang, Min ^b   He, Hongxuan ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Plague; Sentinel species; Surveillance; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RODENTIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLAGUE; REVIEW; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHINA; HUMANS; PLAGUE; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84864384658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2011.00277.x     Document Type: Review

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