Fleas collected from Norway rats in downtown Los Angeles carry human pathogen

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 20:30 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 new study.

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