The Asian house shrew Suncus murinus as a reservoir and source of human outbreaks of plague in Madagascar.

• Váldodahkkit: Soanandrasana Rahelinirina (Dahkki), Minoarisoa Rajerison (Dahkki), Sandra Telfer (Dahkki), Cyril Savin (Dahkki), Elisabeth Carniel (Dahkki), Jean-Marc Duplantier (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Fáttát: article
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Identifying key reservoirs for zoonoses is crucial for understanding variation in incidence. Plague re-emerged in Mahajanga, Madagascar in the 1990s but there has been no confirmed case since 1999. Here we combine ecological and genetic data, from during and after the epidemics, with experimental in...