the paper describes the use of 14 south african wild rodent species as experimental models and demonstrates the proven value of many of these as laboratory animals in research on bacterial infections ( plague , relapsing fever ) , rickettsial infections ( tickbite fever , louse typhus ) , viral infections ( poliomyelitis . rift-valley fever and other arbovirus infections , lassa fever ) , fungal infections ( histoplasmosis ) , parasitic infections ( schistosomiasis ) and in diabetes mellitus and cancer research .
C0026946
fungal infections
C0019655
histoplasmosis