Sentence examples for rat populations and from inspiring English sources

"We have reduced rat populations and now have antibiotics that can be used to treat human outbreaks before they start to spread on a large scale".

Ships often carried cats to control rat populations, and Edgette notes that at least one cat (and her kittens) rode the Titanic from Ireland to England prior to its final voyage.

Plague then largely disappeared from these cities due to improved hygiene and efforts to control the non-native rat population; however it reemerged in native rat populations and was responsible for an epidemic near San Francisco in 1908 [7].

Heavy infection has been reported in eastern African communities with poor living conditions, high rat populations and in settlement camps [ 4, 13- 15].

In addition, the expansion of rat populations and the resurgence of leptospirosis in dogs potentially promote establishing an endemic substrate for the spread of the disease, especially in urban regions.

We compared patterns of nucleotide polymorphism at amino acid replacement and synonymous sites between the two rat populations and between rat and mouse using polymorphism data from orthologous loci from 10 wild Mus m. castaneus from NW India (D. L. Halligan, A. Kousathanas, R. W. Ness, B. Harr, L. Eöry, H. Li, T. M. Keane, D. J. Adams, and P. D. Keightley, unpublished results).

But a little over a month ago, the police, responding to complaints by residents about late-night noise, the constant smell of fried food, an increase in the rat population and parking problems, ordered the trucks away from sites that many had occupied for years.

The introduction was a failure: the mongoose failed to control the rat population and instead contributed to the decline of native fauna such as the yellow-shouldered blackbird and possibly the elfin-woods warbler.

We conclude that recent changes in transmission patterns of leptospirosis, partially caused by an expanding rat population and the resurgence of canine leptospirosis, may facilitate the spread of the disease in temperate countries like Germany.

It is thus unlikely that there was any contact between the rat populations within and outside the walls.

In North America, plague was first documented in non-native rat populations in the 1890s and 1900s in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Galveston [7].