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Observations on the mechanism of the transmission of plague by fleas.

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J. Hyg. (Camb.), Plague Suppl. 3, 423-39. 1914 CE.

Bacot and Martin demonstrated the method by which the rat flea (primarily Xenopsylla cheopis) transmits the plague bacillus from rat to man.

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