Rodent control to fight plague : field assessment of methods based on rat density reduction

Research funding: Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy. Grant Number: 2018‐SB‐024‐18SSEOC049‐PMG7‐SSA5‐IPMMADAGASCAR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We are especially grateful to the health authorities and the population in Miantso and Ankazobe for allowing us to do this work and being so helpful. We thank the staff of the Plague Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, for helping with the field and laboratory work, especially Alain Berthin Rakotoarisoa and Andrianiaina Parfait Rakotonindrainy. This work was supported by a Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy grant (2018‐SB‐024‐18SSEOC049‐PMG7‐SSA5‐IPMMADAGASCAR) covering the project “Développement de contre‐mesures médicales à la peste à Madagascar” with scientific support of IRBA (French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute), within the framework of French MoD's involvement in G7 Global partnership. The French Agency for International Technical Expertise (AFETI) ensures the proper financial execution of the project and contributes to the implementation of cooperation actions under the control of the Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy. This research was also funded in part by the Wellcome Trust [095171/Z/10/Z] and the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar. For the purpose of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. K.S. was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) under the EastBio DTP (grant number BB/M010996/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD