Prevalence and Infection Load Dynamics of Rickettsia felis in Actively Feeding Cat Fleas

BACKGROUND: Rickettsia felis is a flea-associated rickettsial pathogen recurrently identified in both colonized and wild-caught cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis. We hypothesized that within colonized fleas, the intimate relationship between R. felis and C. felis allows for the coordination of ricket...

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Autores principales: Reif, Kathryn E., Stout, Rhett W., Henry, Gretchen C., Foil, Lane D., Macaluso, Kevin R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18665265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002805

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2474969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18665265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002805

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