Downtown LA Fleas Carry Human Pathogen

Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

Most fleas collected from rats trapped in downtown Los Angeles, California carried microbes from the genus, Bartonella, many of which are human pathogens, according to a paper in the November Applied...

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