Plague epizootic cycles in Central Asia

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Reijniers, Jonas ^a   Begon, Mike ^b   Ageyev, Vladimir S ^c   Leirs, Herwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Abundance threshold; Flea; Gerbil; Plague; Predator prey cycle; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; THRESHOLD; WILD POPULATION;

KAZAKHSTAN;

ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; FLEA; GERBIL; KAZAKHSTAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PLAGUE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; GERBILLINAE; INSECT VECTORS; KAZAKHSTAN; PLAGUE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIPHONAPTERA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84904489024     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0302     Document Type: Article

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