Modeling the ecologic niche of plague in sylvan and domestic animal hosts to delineate sources of human exposure in the western United States
Plague has been established in the western United States (US) since 1900 following the West Coast introduction of commensal rodents infected with Yersinia pestis via early industrial shipping. Over the last century, plague ecology has transitioned through cycles of widespread human transmission, urb...
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PeerJ Inc.
2015-12-01
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