ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2013
Short report: Exposing laboratory-reared fleas to soil and wild flea feces increases transmission of Yersinia pestis.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Interaction of Bacteria and Fleas, Focusing on the Plague Bacterium-A Review.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Malagasy flea microbiota results from a combination of vertically transmitted and environmentally acquired microbes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Yersinia pestis: the Natural History of Plague.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020Review
- The role of transition metal transporters for iron, zinc, manganese, and copper in the pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis.Metallomics : integrated biometal science · 2015Review
- Flea-Associated Bacterial Communities across an Environmental Transect in a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
Laboratory-reared Oropsylla montana were exposed to soil and wild-caught Oropsylla montana feces for 1 week. Fleas from these two treatments and a control group of laboratory-reared fleas were infected with Yersinia pestis, the etiological agent of plague. Fleas exposed to soil transmitted Y. pestis to mice at a significantly greater rate (50.0% of mice were infected) than control fleas (23.3% of mice were infected). Although the concentration of Y. pestis in fleas did not differ among treatments, the minimum transmission efficiency of fleas from the soil and wild flea feces treatments (6.9% and 7.6%, respectively) were more than three times higher than in control fleas (2.2%). Our results suggest that exposing laboratory-reared fleas to diverse microbes alters transmission of Y. pestis.
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