Factors affecting the spread and maintenance of plague

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 954, Issue , 2012, Pages 79-94

  Gage, Kenneth L ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLEA; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PLAGUE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; PLAGUE; SIPHONAPTERA;

EID: 84868160271     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3561-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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