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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., s1-31(3), 1951, pp. 311
Copyright © 1951 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Attempted Transmission of Murine Typhus to Roof Rats by the Ingestion of Food Heavily Contaminated with Infected Flea Feces1

E. R. Rickard

Food known to be contaminated with viable rickettsias of murine typhus contained in infective flea feces was ingested by 20 roof rats. These rats remained uninfected as indicated by negative complement fixation tests on their sera.


1 This study was conducted under the auspices of the International Health Division of The Rockefeller Foundation and the Florida State Board of Health.






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