XXVII. Report on experiments undertaken to discover whether the common domestic animals of India are affected by plague

Bannerman, W. B.; Kapadia, Rachana

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“…The German Plague Commission found evidence of active infection in experimentally infected sheep and goats, but the animals all recovered. 55 Others have found that sheep succumb to Y. pestis infection when inoculated intravenously. 56 There is limited evidence, however, of naturally acquired infection or plague-associated deaths in domesticated sheep or goats.…”

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Blood Meal Identification in Off-Host Cat Fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda

Graham¹,

Borchert²,

Black³

et al. 2013

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, is an inefficient vector of the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis) and is the predominant off-host flea species in human habitations in the West Nile region, an established plague focus in northwest Uganda. To determine if C. felis might serve as a Y. pestis bridging vector in the West Nile region, we collected on-and off-host fleas from human habitations and used a real-time polymerase chain reaction-based assay to estimate the proportion of off-host C. felis that had fed on humans and the proportion that had fed on potentially infectious rodents or shrews. Our findings indicate that cat fleas in human habitations in the West Nile region feed primarily on domesticated species. We conclude that C. felis is unlikely to serve as a Y. pestis bridging vector in this region.

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Blood Meal Identification in Off-Host Cat Fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda

Graham¹,

Borchert²,

Black³

et al. 2013

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…A repetition of Simpson's experiments in India by Bannerman (1904) and in Natal by Hill (1904) failed entirely to convey plague to any of the domestic animals.…”

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On the Epidemiology of Plague

Thompson

1906

Epidemiol. Infect.

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It is now twelve years since it first became possible to study plague by modern methods, and yet no conclusion on its aetiology has been reached which has met with general acceptance. Two causes, as it seems to me, have chiefly contributed to this disappoinment. One consists in the appeal which has been persistently made to bacteriology for the lights which in fact are not in its power to shed; the other is neglect of the epidemiological method, or at least failure to apply it effectively. In consequence, a field has been occupied by the bacteriologist which could not be profitably laboured by him. The epidemiologist has not seriously disputed this usurpation of his domain, and for his apparent apathy he has not been without excuses of some weight.

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Neuere Forschungen über die Epidemiologie der Pest

Lewin¹

1913

Ergebnisse Der Inneren Medizin Und Kinderheilkunde

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XXVII. Report on experiments undertaken to discover whether the common domestic animals of India are affected by plague

Cited by 4 publications

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Blood Meal Identification in Off-Host Cat Fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda

Blood Meal Identification in Off-Host Cat Fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from a Plague-Endemic Region of Uganda

On the Epidemiology of Plague

Neuere Forschungen über die Epidemiologie der Pest

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