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. 2018 Aug 21;115(34):E7894-E7895.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1810221115. Epub 2018 Aug 3.

Reply to Park et al.: Human ectoparasite transmission of plague during the Second Pandemic is still plausible

Katharine R Dean  1 , Fabienne Krauer  2 , Lars Walløe  3 , Ole Christian Lingjærde  4 , Barbara Bramanti  2   5 , Nils C Stenseth  1 , Boris V Schmid  1
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Reply to Park et al.: Human ectoparasite transmission of plague during the Second Pandemic is still plausible

Katharine R Dean et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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