Vertebrate Pest Conference: Proceedings
Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings: 8th (1978)
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Date of this Version
March 1978
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Rodent populations - particularly those that live in close proximity to man - constitute a perennial and often severe threat to man's health as reservoirs and often as direct sources of infection for a wide variety of viral, rickettsial, and bacterial disease producing agents. The following will discuss the place of rodent population reduction for the control of plague, a bacterial disease of rodents transmitted by fleas endemic in the western United States.