Epidemiological studies of plague in India: 2. The changing pattern of rodents and fleas in Calcutta and other cities
Data from early in the twentieth century up to the present day indicate that Rattus rattus among rodents and Xenopsylla cheopis among fleas are the two most important elements in urban human plague infection in India, R. norvegicus playing a more minor role. The relative numbers of both these specie...
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1960
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2555584 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20604076 |