SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

Through a combination of mechanical stresses and corrosive environments, a material's
performance may be hindered by the complex evolution of damage due to stress corrosion …

INTRODUCTION Infectious disease outbreaks among wildlife have surged in recent
decades alongside global climate change. However, the circumstances under which climate …

Plague has been known since ancient times as a re‐emerging infectious disease, causing
considerable socioeconomic burden in regional hotspots. To better understand the …

Highly lethal pathogens (eg, hantaviruses, hendra virus, anthrax, or plague) pose unique
public-health problems, because they seem to periodically flare into outbreaks before …

Sylvatic plague is highly prevalent during infrequent epizootics that ravage the landscape of
western North America. During these periods, plague dissemination is very efficient …

Black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) on the Great Plains of the United States
are highly susceptible to plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, with mortality on …

Plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is an exotic disease in North America circulating
predominantly in wild populations of rodents and their fleas. Black-tailed prairie dogs …

Infectious diseases that are transmitted from wildlife hosts to humans, such as the Ebola
virus and MERS virus, can be difficult to understand because the pathogens emerge from …

Host identity, habitat type, season, and interspecific interactions were investigated as
determinants of the community structure of fleas on wild carnivores in northwestern Mexico …