Table 1.
Numbers and species of fleas infesting hut-trapped rodents, Okoro county, West Nile, Uganda (January–May)
| Rodent species (n) | No. fleas collected (no. fleas per host)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X. brasiliensisa,b | X. cheopisa,b | D. lypususa,b | Ct. bacopus/Ct. c. cabirusa,b | S. torvusa | C. felisa | E. gallinaceaa | T. penetransa | Unknown | Total | |
| Rattus rattus (2,357) | 728 (0.31) | 211 (0.09) | 46 (0.02) | 19 (0.01) | 10 (<0.01) | 28 (0.01) | 3 (<0.01) | 1 (<0.01) | 7 (<0.01) | 1,053 (0.45) |
| Arvicanthis niloticus (119) | 535 (4.50) | 1 (0.01) | 81 (0.68) | 27 (0.23) | 2 (0.02) | 2 (0.02) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 7 (0.06) | 655 (5.50) |
| Mastomys spp. (16) | 7 (0.44) | 0 (0) | 4 (0.25) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 11 (0.69) |
| Lophuromys sikapusi (14) | 2 (0.14) | 0 (0) | 4 (0.29) | 12 (0.86) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 18 (1.29) |
| Lophuromys flavopunctatus (8) | 5 (0.63) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (0.63) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 10 (1.25) |
| Praomys jacksoni (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Cricetomys gambianus (1) | 1 (1.00) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.00) |
| Unknown (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Total (2,517) | 1,278 (0.51) | 212 (0.08) | 135 (0.05) | 63 (0.03) | 12 (<0.01) | 30 (0.01) | 3 (<0.01) | 1 (<0.01) | 14 (0.01) | |
a
Xenopsylla brasiliensis, Xenopsylla cheopis, Dinopsyllus lypusus, Ctenophthalmus bacopus/Ctenophthalmus caleatus cabirus, Stivalius torvus, Ctenocephalides felis, Echidnophaga gallinacea, Tunga penetrans.
b
Confirmed or suspected vectors of Y. pestis (Devignat 1949, Gratz 1999).