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Arat flea is aparasite ofrats.

There are at least fourspecies:

• Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea, the primary vector forbubonic plague
• Northern rat flea (Nosopsyllus fasciatus). According to Prince, "... it too is an efficient vector of plague. It was found to be even more widely distributed than X. cheopis, occurring in 12 of the 13 States surveyed".^[1]
• Xenopsylla brasiliensis,^[2] a vector ofbubonic plague, found in South America, Africa, and India^[3]
• Leptopsylla segnis^[1]

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