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Body Lice, Yersinia pestis Orientalis, and Black Death

2010-09-28

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Letters exchanged on role of Y. pestis in European plague Black Death.\nOur colleague and mentor David E. Davis researched and wrote in his retirement after years of research and reflection on rat ecology and rodent-borne diseases (3,4). Rattus rattus is commonly recognized as the vertebrate host of fl ea-borne plague that swept through Europe in the 1300s, killing >50% of the population. Davis believed this ex...

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Literature Corpus work: 07246e6d-7fb7-5abe-9b93-9486c21e254d
DOI: 10.3201/eid1610.100822

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