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. 1924 Sep;23(1):98–105. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400008500
The Respective Influences of Temperature and Moisture upon the Survival of the Rat Flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) away from its host1
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The experiments recorded in this paper were made in 1914. The work was put aside during the war. For various reasons, amongst them the death of Arthur Bacot, who contracted typhus whilst experimenting with infected lice, the observations have not been recorded until now.
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