Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation (Incentive Funding)
Article History
Received: 13 September 2017
Accepted: 16 August 2018
First Online: 3 September 2018
Competing interest
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: No ethical approval is needed for the parasites used in this study. All data representing the mammal individuals included herein were obtained from previously published studies. Ethical approval for the previous handling and capture of all mammal species were obtained from the Stellenbosch University ethics committee (SU-ACUM11–00004). With ethical approval as a pre-requisite, sampling permits to collect parasites and rodent hosts were provided by local authorities (Eastern Cape Province, CRO37/11CR; KZN wildlife OP4990/2010; Gauteng CPF 6–0153; CapeNature 0035-AAA007–00423; Northern Cape FAUNA 1076/2011; Free State 01/8091; Namibia 1198/2007).
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