Problem of preservation of the causative agent of plague in nature as a methodological task in epidemiology of anthropozoonoses
Rotshil'd, E.V.; Ermilov, A.P.; Soldatkin, I.S.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 47(2): 101-106
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 651804 Document Number: 134536
In checking the current hypotheses on the preservation of the causative agent of plague in natural foci, no evidence of continuous circulation of Yersinia pestis in animals [rodents, ticks] was obtained. Further studies on the possibility of survival of the causative agent of this disease in nature may be regarded as prospective.