Seasonal fluctuations of small mammal and flea communities in a Ugandan plague focus: evidence to implicate Arvicanthis niloticus and Crocidura spp. as key hosts in Yersinia pestis transmission

BACKGROUND: The distribution of human plague risk is strongly associated with rainfall in the tropical plague foci of East Africa, but little is known about how the plague bacterium is maintained during periods between outbreaks or whether environmental drivers trigger these outbreaks. We collected...

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Autores principales: Moore, Sean M, Monaghan, Andrew, Borchert, Jeff N, Mpanga, Joseph T, Atiku, Linda A, Boegler, Karen A, Montenieri, John, MacMillan, Katherine, Gage, Kenneth L, Eisen, Rebecca J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4297414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25573253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0616-1

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