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

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Abstract
Plague is a flea-borne rodent-associated zoonotic disease that is caused by Yersinia pestis and characterized by long quiescent periods punctuated by rapidly spreading epidemics and epizootics. How plague bacteria persist during inter-epizootic periods is poorly understood, yet is important for pred …
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Authors Eisen RJ;Borchert JN;Mpanga JT;Atiku LA;MacMillan K;Boegler KA;Montenieri JA;Monaghan A;Gage KL;;
Journal PloS one
Year 2012
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22530057
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climate National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE animals pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support u.s. gov't non-p.h.s. P.H.S. uganda / epidemiology biodiversity* population density pmid:22530057 pmc3329458 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035598 rebecca j eisen jeff n borchert kenneth l gage insect vectors* / microbiology plague / transmission* rodentia siphonaptera* / microbiology zoonoses / transmission

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