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Rickettsia felis in cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis parasitizing opossums, San Bernardino County, California.
Medical and veterinary entomology - 1 Dec 2012
Abramowicz K F, Wekesa J W, Nwadike C N, Zambrano M L, Karpathy S E, Cecil D, Burns J, Hu R, Eremeeva M E
Abstract excerpt
Los Angeles and Orange Counties are known endemic areas for murine typhus in California; however, no recent reports of flea-borne rickettsioses are known from adjacent San Bernardino County. Sixty-five opossums (Didelphis virginiana) were trapped in the suburban residential and industrial zones of the southwestern part of San Bernardino County in 2007. Sixty out of 65 opossums were infested with fleas, primarily...
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