Rodent diversity and detection of Yersinia pestis in rodents. [Dataset 1. KaratuTz]

These rodent data were collected from Karatu district Tanzania for the purpose of assessing factors that may influence plague disease in plague foci villages and non-plague foci villages within the district. Rodents were captured with Sherman live animal traps and anaesthetized for collection of blood sample that were used to make blood smear on a glass slide for the purpose of observation of Yersinia pestis under compound light microscope and then were identified using a guide book for rodent identification. The euthanized rodent were then dissected and organs such as lungs and spleen were taken for confirmation of (pla) gene of Y.pestis DNA under qPCR technic following the results from the microscopic observation of stained blood smear