Espinaze, Marcela P ARahelinirina, SoanandrasanaRadovimiandrinifarany, TodisoaAndriamiarimanana, Fehivola MandanirinaAndrianarisoa, Alain BerthinSoarimalala, VoahangyScobie, KathrynHarimalala, MireilleRajerison, MinoarisoaBelmain, Steven RTelfer, Sandra2025-05-132025-05-132025-05-09Espinaze, M P A, Rahelinirina, S, Radovimiandrinifarany, T, Andriamiarimanana, F M, Andrianarisoa, A B, Soarimalala, V, Scobie, K, Harimalala, M, Rajerison, M, Belmain, S R & Telfer, S 2025, 'Community-led intensive trapping reduces abundance of key plague reservoir and flea vector', Tropical medicine and health, vol. 53, 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-025-00746-01348-8945PubMedCentral: PMC12063217ORCID: /0000-0002-9596-0711/work/184350016https://hdl.handle.net/2164/25440We thank the staff of the Pasteur Institute of Madagascar and Association Vahatra for technical support and field assistance. We are also grateful to the rural communities in the Analavory Commune-Miarinarivo district of Madagascar for their willingness to participate and their effort in setting traps daily, and our community agents for collection of daily capture data. We are grateful to the Mention Zoologie et Biodiversite Animale, Université d’Antananarivo; Madagascar National Parks; and the Direction des Aires Protégées, des Ressources Naturelles Renouvelables et des Ecosystèmes for administrative aid and issuing research permits. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Wellcome, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. For the purpose of Open Access, the authors have applied a CC BY license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising.101451781engplaguesiphonapterarodent-borne diseaseszoonosisrural populationrodent controlMadagascarQH301 BiologyQH301Journal article10.1186/s41182-025-00746-053