Wild-rodent plague in Kenya
- 1 September 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 46 (5) , 547-549
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(52)90047-3
Abstract
Pasteurella pestis is common among the wild rodents of Kenya and they, as well as the common rat, serve as reservoirs of plague and are therefore dangerous sources of infection of man. These rodents are hosts to the same flea as is the rat (Xenopsylla cheopis) and this flea is a known vector of plague in the area.Keywords
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