SEROLOGIC AND BACTERIOLOGIC STUDIES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLAGUE INFECTION IN A WILD RODENT PLAGUE POCKET IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA OF CALIFORNIA
| Autor: | Thomas J. Quan, Bruce W. Hudson, Martin I. Goldenberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1972 |
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Veterinary medicine
Peromyscus Rodent Yersinia pestis animal diseases Rodentia Plague (disease) California Serology Rodent Diseases Oriental rat flea Mice biology.animal parasitic diseases medicine Animals Microtus Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Epizootic Plague Ecology biology Hemagglutination Tests biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Insect Vectors Siphonaptera Bay |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 8:278-286 |
| ISSN: | 0090-3558 |
| DOI: | 10.7589/0090-3558-8.3.278 |
| Popis: | Wild rodents involved in a plague epizootic were trapped on a bimonthly schedule at 15 trap sites distributed throughout the San Bruno Mountain plague pocket located in northern San Mateo County, California. The percentage of positive sera obtained from Microtus californicus varied from zero in two sites in which Y. pestis had not been recovered from rodent flea or tissue pools to as high as 90% to 97% positives in Microtus trapped in four sites in which Y. pestis was recovered. Analysis of the data available indicates that the rate of seropositive rodents, Peromyscus maniculutus and Microtus californicus, is correlated with gross numbers of fleas found per trapline. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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