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全世界城市和其它家养环境中屋顶鼠(黑家鼠)在鼠疫及鼠型斑疹伤寒生态学和流行病学中的作用已得到充分证明。家栖生活及对人群开发环境的适应性,增强了屋顶鼠成为在主要公共卫生上具有重要性的啮齿动物,其跳蚤在啮齿动物及人群中起着传播鼠疫和鼠型斑疹伤寒的主要作用。然而,在南加里福尼亚多年的观察使我们怀疑屋顶鼠对这两种疾病的公共卫生的重要性。南加里福尼亚屋顶鼠自相矛盾的情况涉及到几个问
The role of roof rats (black house mice) in plague and mouse typhus ecologies and epidemiology in cities and other domestic settings around the world has been well documented. The habitat and adaptability to the population development environment enhances the fact that roof rats become rodents of major public health importance whose fleas play a major role in the spread of plague and murine typhus in rodents and populations . However, years of observation in southern California have led us to doubt the importance of roof rats to the public health of these two diseases. The self-contradictory situation of southern California roof rats involves several questions