Fleas of Small Mammals on Reunion Island: Diversity, Distribution and Epidemiological Consequences

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Guernier, Vanina ^a,b   Lagadec, Erwan ^a,b   LeMinter, Gildas ^a,b   Licciardi, Séverine ^a,c   Balleydier, Elsa ^d   Pagès, Frédéric ^d   Laudisoit, Anne ^e,f   Dellagi, Koussay ^b   Tortosa, Pablo ^a,g  

^a Plateforme de Recherche CYROI   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UMR ASTRE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHIDNOPHAGA GALLINACEA; FLEA; FLEA INFESTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LEPTOPSYLLA SEGNIS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUS MUSCULUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; REUNION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMALL MAMMAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUNCUS MURINUS; XENOPSYLLA; XENOPSYLLA BRASILIENSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FLEA INFESTATIONS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; RODENT DISEASES; SEASON; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; FLEA INFESTATIONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; REUNION; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; SIPHONAPTERA;

EID: 84907584620     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003129     Document Type: Article

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