The Perfect Burrow, but for What? Identifying Local Habitat Conditions Promoting the Presence of the Host and Vector Species in the Kazakh Plague System.

The Perfect Burrow, but for What? Identifying Local Habitat Conditions Promoting the Presence of the Host and Vector Species in the Kazakh Plague System.

<h4>Introduction</h4>The wildlife plague system in the Pre-Balkhash desert of Kazakhstan has been a subject of study for many years. Much progress has been made in generating a method of predicting outbreaks of the disease (infection by the gram negative bacterium Yersinia pestis) but ex...

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Main Authors: Bethany Levick, Anne Laudisoit, Liesbeth Wilschut, Elisabeth Addink, Vladimir Ageyev, Aidyn Yeszhanov, Valerij Sapozhnikov, Alexander Belayev, Tania Davydova, Sally Eagle, Mike Begon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136962

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