Prevalence and infection load dynamics of Rickettsia felis in actively feeding cat fleas.
Rickettsia felis is a flea-associated rickettsial pathogen recurrently identified in both colonized and wild-caught cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis. We hypothesized that within colonized fleas, the intimate relationship between R. felis and C. felis allows for the coordination of rickettsial replic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2008-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2474969?pdf=render |