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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., s1-31(3), 1951, pp. 295-298
Copyright © 1951 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Evaluation of the Efficiency of Common Cotton Rat Ectoparasites in the Transmission of Murine Typhus1

C. Brooke Worth AND E. R. Rickard2

The mite, Liponyssus bacoti, and the flea, Polygenis gwyni, were found to be the most common blood-sucking ectoparasites of cotton rats in Florida. Murine typhus transmission experiments with L. bacoti indicated that it was only a relatively ineffective vector of murine typhus, while P. gwyni did not transmit at all.


1 The work reported in this paper was conducted with the support and under the auspices of the International Health Division of The Rockefeller Foundation in co-operation with the Florida State Board of Health.


2 Died on January 15, 1951.






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