Human ectoparasites and the spread of plague in Europe during the Second Pandemic

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, can spread through human populations by multiple transmission pathways. Today, most human plague cases are bubonic, caused by spillover of infected fleas from rodent epizootics, or pneumonic, caused by inhalation of infectious droplets. However, littl...

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Published in:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Main Authors: Dean, Katharine R., Krauer, Fabienne, Walløe, Lars, Lingjærde, Ole Christian, Bramanti, Barbara, Stenseth, Nils Chr., Schmid, Boris V.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2018
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5819418/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29339508
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715640115
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