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Flea Diversity as an Element for Persistence of Plague Bacteria in an East African Plague Focus
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...
Autores principales: | Eisen, Rebecca J., Borchert, Jeff N., Mpanga, Joseph T., Atiku, Linda A., MacMillan, Katherine, Boegler, Karen A., Montenieri, John A., Monaghan, Andrew, Gage, Kenneth L. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329458/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22530057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035598 |
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