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SUBMITTER: Abramowicz KF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6537091 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abramowicz K F KF Wekesa J W JW Nwadike C N CN Zambrano M L ML Karpathy S E SE Cecil D D Burns J J Hu R R Eremeeva M E ME
Medical and veterinary entomology 20120620 4
Los Angeles and Orange Counties are known endemic areas for murine typhus in California; however, no recent reports of flea-borne rickettsioses are known from adjacent San Bernardino County. Sixty-five opossums (Didelphis virginiana) were trapped in the suburban residential and industrial zones of the southwestern part of San Bernardino County in 2007. Sixty out of 65 opossums were infested with fleas, primarily cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché, 1835). The flea minimum infection rate wit ...[more]