[The gray rat (Rattus norvegicus) as a carrier of infectious causative agents in Siberia and the Far East].

Literary data and antiplague institutions' reports demonstrate that Norway rats carry over 24 nosological forms and groups of infectious diseases: plague, tularemia, pseudotuberculosis, intestinal yersiniosis, salmonellosis, erysipeloid, listeriosis, leptospirosis, pasteurellosis, brucellosis, dysentery, paratuberculosis, hemorrhagic nephroso-nephritis, Omsk hemorrhagic fever and Q fever, tick-borne and Japanese encephalitis, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, tick-borne rickettsiosis and rickettsial pox, murine typhus, tsutsugamushi disease and toxoplasmosis.