Methodological problems of assessing rodent eradication as measures of plague prevention

Soldatkin, I.S.; Rudenchik, I.V.

Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 50(3): 44-48

1981


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326
PMID: 7254136
Document Number: 175283
The current methods of evaluation of the antiepizootic effect of eradication of rodents in natural foci of plague do not yield valid results attesting to cessation of the plague enzootic. Reduction in the population density of rodents achieves only an immediate effect of enzootic inhibition, which ends when the population density of carriers is restored.

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