[A case of experimental transmission of the causative agent of plague from Ornithodoros tartakovskyi ticks to fleas of the great gerbil].
Biological interrelations between ectoparasites from the colonies of great gerbil were studied experimentally. Hungry fleas Coptopsylla lamellifer are able to feed on the ticks Ornithodoros tartakovskyi infected with plague and in so doing be infected with plague agent. Such feeding is identified as "heterovampirism".
Bilialov
Z A
ZA
Ershova
L S
LS
Sviridov
G G
GG
Sokolov
P N
PN
Arakeliants
V S
VS
D000818:Animals; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005849:Gerbillinae / Q000469:parasitology*; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions; D010930:Plague / Q000635:transmission; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000382:microbiology*; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology*; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000472:pathogenicity*
Sluchaĭ peredachi vozbuditelia chumy ot kleshcheĭ Ornithodoros tartakovskyi blokham bol'shoĭ peschanki v éksperimente.