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Although rat (<jats:italic>Rattus rattus<\/jats:italic>) abundance was similar inside huts within case and control villages, contact rates between rats and humans (as measured by reported rat bites) and host-seeking flea loads were higher in case villages. In addition, compared with persons in control villages, persons in case villages more often reported sleeping on reed or straw mats, storing food in huts where persons sleep, owning dogs and allowing them into huts where persons sleep, storing garbage inside or near huts, and cooking in huts where persons sleep. Compared with persons in case villages, persons in control villages more commonly reported replacing thatch roofing, and growing coffee, tomatoes, onions, and melons in agricultural plots adjacent to their homesteads. Rodent and flea control practices, knowledge of plague, distance to clinics, and most care-seeking practices were similar between persons in case villages and persons in control villages. Our findings reinforce existing plague prevention recommendations and point to potentially advantageous local interventions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.14-0035","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,4,1]],"date-time":"2014-04-01T01:09:55Z","timestamp":1396314595000},"page":"1047-1058","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Identification of Risk Factors for Plague in the West Nile Region of Uganda"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"90","author":[{"given":"Rebecca J.","family":"Eisen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katherine","family":"MacMillan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linda A.","family":"Atiku","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Joseph T.","family":"Mpanga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Emily","family":"Zielinski-Gutierrez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christine B.","family":"Graham","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karen A.","family":"Boegler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Russell E.","family":"Enscore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kenneth L.","family":"Gage","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"2795","reference":[{"key":"R1","series-title":"Annu Rev Entomol","first-page":"505","article-title":"Natural history of plague: perspectives from more than a century of research","volume":"50","author":"Gage","year":"2005"},{"key":"R2","series-title":"Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control","first-page":"11","article-title":"Epidemiology and distribution of plague","author":"Tikhomirov","year":"1999"},{"key":"R3","series-title":"Arch Intern Med","first-page":"1253","article-title":"Plague. 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