Evaluation of the Efficiency of Common Cotton Rat Ectoparasites in the Transmission of Murine Typhus
- 1 May 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine
- Vol. s1-31 (3) , 295-298
- https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1951.s1-31.295
Abstract
Summary The mite, Liponyssus bacoti, and the flea, Polygenis gwyni, were found to be the most common blood-sucking ectoparasites of cotton rats in Florida. Murine typhus transmission experiments with L. bacoti indicated that it was only a relatively ineffective vector of murine typhus, while P. gwyni did not transmit at all.Keywords
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