SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

Plague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia,
Africa, South and North America, and has been recognized recently as a reemerging threat …

The bacterium Yersinia pestis causes bubonic plague. In Central Asia, where human plague
is still reported regularly, the bacterium is common in natural populations of great gerbils. By …

Through a combination of mechanical stresses and corrosive environments, a material's
performance may be hindered by the complex evolution of damage due to stress corrosion …

The incidence of plague has rebounded in the Americas, Asia, and Africa alongside rapid
globalization and climate change. Previous studies have shown local climate to have …

We investigated the role of environmental filtering as an underlying mechanism of assembly
of compound communities of fleas parasitic on Palearctic small mammals at two spatial …

Domestic fleas were collected in 12 villages in the western Usambara Mountains in
Tanzania. Of these, 7 are considered villages with high plague frequency, where human …

Background Plague, a zoonosis caused by Yersinia pestis, is found in Asia, the Americas
but mainly in Africa, with the island of Madagascar reporting almost one third of human …

Rickettsia felis was first recognised two decades ago and has now been described as
endemic to all continents except Antarctica. The rickettsiosis caused by R. felis is known as …

We studied the effect of air temperature and RH on the survival time of adult Xenopsylla
conformis Wagner, 1903 and Xenopsylla ramesis Rothschild, 1904 fleas during starvation to …