The Canary Database
Yale Occupational and
Environmental Medicine Program
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. 77(6):800-8, 1983.
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Studies on plague in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Shepherd AJ, Hummitzsch DE, Leman PA, Hartwig EK
Article type: Curated - Canary ID: 2448
| 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 |
| cross sectional |
11,645 |
ingestion, vector |
exposure |
yes |
concurrent |
| descriptive |
9 |
vector |
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repeated |
| Exposures |
Fleas
Human flea
Yersinia pestis
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| Outcomes |
Ectoparasitic Infestations
Plague
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| Species |
Aethomys namaquensis
Aethomys sp.
Cape porcupine
Cats
Crocidura
Ctenocephalides, NOS
Dogs
Elephantulus
Fleas
Gerbillurus
Hares
Mice
Mus minutoides
Mystromys albicaudatus
Otomys irroratus
Praomys coucha
Rhabdomys pumilio
roof rat
Saccostomus campestris
Springhaas
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| Locations |
| South Africa |
(sf01) |
Coega River (stream) |
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Gamtoos River (stream) |
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Swartkops (stream) |
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Eastern Cape |
Coega (populated place) |
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Despatch (populated place) |
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Hankey (populated place) |
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Humansdorp (populated place) |
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Kirkwood (populated place) |
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Patensie (populated place) |
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Port Elizabeth (populated place) |
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Steytlerville (populated place) |
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Sunday River (stream) |
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Uitenhage (populated place) |
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