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authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Zhang
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mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003132:Commerce; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000266:history / Q000401:mortality*; D003710:Demography; D004199:Disease Vectors; D017753:Ecosystem; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D014943:Global Health; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D010930:Plague / Q000266:history / Q000401:mortality*; D051381:Rats / Q000469:parasitology; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology; D005423:Siphonaptera / Q000821:virology; D015010:Yersinia pestis / Q000472:pathogenicity
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