Rodents are the most abundant and diversified order of living mammals in world. Since middle ages they known to contribute human diseases, eg. black rats associated with distribution plague. In modern times also rodents form a threat for public health number pathogens directly or indirectly transmitted by rodents. Of 2277 extant rodent species, 217 species reservoirs harboring 66 zoonoses cause...

The greenkeeper is fortunate in that he is not unduly required to pinch pennies when it comes to selecting and using effective control measures. Furthermore, he is fortunate in having available reasonably satisfactory control measures for most of the insect and rodent pests that are likely to infest or seriously damage turf grasses. Unfortunately, however, prophylactic or preventive measures ar...

The use of laboratory rodents is, and will continue to be, essential in biomedical research. However, like all living things, laboratory rodents have their associated "baggage" of other organisms, whether paying passengers, silent stowaways, or mutineers and pirates of the goods at hand. In other words, we should expect laboratory rodents to have characteristic health flaws. The field of labora...

None of the so-called developing countries has an adequate rodent control program at present. In only a few of these countries is any rodent control research occurring despite the fact that rodent problems are actually quite serious in many regions and potentially so in others. Expertise, techniques and materials from the developed countries are of limited usefulness because of major difference...