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Received: 18 May 2017

Accepted: 10 January 2018

First Online: 6 February 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The research protocol was presented to the authorities of the National Zoonoses Strategy (“Estrategia Nacional de Zoonosis – ESNZ” in Spanish) of the Peruvian Ministry of Health, which is the unit in charge of plague. The research protocol was accepted by the authorities. Since there is no formal ethics committee within the current Ministry of Health (there is an ethics committee in the National Institute of Health – INS in Spanish – but it deals exclusively with research protocols involving clinical data/ patients’ information), and the survey did not collect information related to participants’ personal medical history or data, ethical approval was not required. However, all participants were read the informed consent which was digitally recorded. No remuneration was provided for participating in the study.

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