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n.1.Any of several North African gerbils.
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Noun1.jird - gerbil of northern Africa
gerbil, gerbille - small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
genus Meriones, Meriones - a genus of Cricetidae


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Jirds (Meriones libycus), jird carcasses, rodent burrows, and rodent excreta were found at the camel corral.
Plague from eating raw camel liver by Fontaine, Robert E. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Although spirochetes readily pass between ticks confined in the same feeding chamber, none do so when the infected ticks feed on the back of a mouse while noninfected ticks are feeding on the mouse's head (3), when attached to different ears of a jird (5), or when the distance separating the infected from the noninfected ticks is 3 cm (4).
Co-feeding transmission and its contribution to the perpetuation of ... by Matuschka, Franz-Rainer / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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