The Canary Database
Yale Occupational and
Environmental Medicine Program
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Room 366
New Haven, CT, USA
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Am J Trop Med Hyg 1993 Feb;48(2):269-73.
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A suburban focus of endemic typhus in Los Angeles County: association with seropositive domestic cats and opossums.
Sorvillo FJ, Gondo B, Emmons R, Ryan P, Waterman SH, Tilzer A, Andersen EM, Murray RA, Barr R
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, California.
Article type: Curated - Canary ID: 1826
| Cause and Effect Analysis |
Interspecies susceptibility data |
Shared exposures with humans |
Shared outcomes with humans |
Gene sequence data |
| Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Study type |
N |
Routes |
Sampling |
Controls |
Timing |
| descriptive |
33 |
vector |
- |
- |
concurrent |
| cross sectional |
212 |
vector |
exposure |
yes |
concurrent |
| Exposures |
Cat flea
Fleas
Human flea
Rickettsia typhi
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| Outcomes |
Ectoparasitic Infestations
Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne
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| Species |
Cats
Didelphis marsupialis
Dogs
Human
Rats
roof rat
Skunks
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| Locations |
| United States |
California |
Agoura (populated place) |
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Los Angeles County (populated place) |
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