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Title Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: pulicidae) is as efficient as transmission by blocked fleas
Author Rebecca J. Eisen*, Jeff N. Borchert, Jennifer L. Holmes, Gerald Amatre, Kristen Van Wyk, Russell E. Enscore, Nackson Babi, Linda A. Atiku, Aryn P. Wilder, Sara M. Vetter, Scott W. Bearden, John A. Montenieri and Kenneth L. Gage
Date 2008-06
Description Our laboratory study shows that C. felis is a competent vector of plague bacteria, but that efficiency is low compared with another flea species collected in the same area: the oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis. On the other hand, despite its low vector efficiency, C. felis is the most common flea in human habitations in a plague-endemic region of Uganda
Keywords cat flea, rat flea, plague, Uganda
URL http://www.ajtmh.org/content/78/6/949.full
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