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A Dietary Plant Extract Formulation Helps Reduce Flea Populations in Cats: A Double-Blind Randomized Study

Pharmaceuticals, 2023
There is a growing demand for natural products to be used to control fleas in pets. A prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy of the biological plant-based food supplement Bioticks® (thyme, rosemary, lemon ...
Damien Banuls, Jessie Brun, Jean-Louis Blua, Marie Christine Cadiergues   +3 more
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The association of host and vector characteristics with Ctenocephalides felis pathogen and endosymbiont infection

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Surveillance of the fleas and flea-borne pathogens infecting cats is important for both human and animal health. Multiple zoonotic Bartonella and Rickettsia species are known to infect the most common flea infesting cats and dogs worldwide ...
Charlotte Moore, Edward B. Breitschwerdt, Lisa Kim, Yiyao Li, Kelli Ferris, Ricardo Maggi, Erin Lashnits   +6 more
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Immediate and long-term efficacy of Felpreva®, a new spot-on formulation containing tigolaner, emodepside and praziquantel, applied as a single application to cats artificially infested with the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis

Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases, 2023
Five studies (two dose determination, two dose confirmation, and one speed of flea kill study) were conducted to assess the immediate (therapeutic) efficacy and long-term persistent (preventive) efficacy of a single spot-on application containing the ...
Norbert Mencke, Katrin Blazejak, Gabriele Petry, Hannah Hamburg, Hannah Ringeisen, Tanja N. Knoppe, Alta Viljoen, Ashley Smith, Jennifer Spruill   +8 more
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The Diverse Roles of the Global Transcriptional Regulator PhoP in the Lifecycle of Yersinia pestis

Pathogens, 2020
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, has a complex infectious cycle that alternates between mammalian hosts (rodents and humans) and insect vectors (fleas). Consequently, it must adapt to a wide range of host environments to achieve successful
Hana S. Fukuto, Gloria I. Viboud, Viveka Vadyvaloo   +2 more
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Predictors for abundance of host flea and floor flea in households of villages with endemic commensal rodent plague, Yunnan Province, China.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BackgroundFrom 1990 to 2006, fifty-five natural villages experienced at least one plague epidemic in Lianghe County, Yunnan Province, China. This study is aimed to document flea abundance and identify predictors in households of villages with endemic ...
Jia-Xiang Yin, Alan Geater, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Xing-Qi Dong, Chun-Hong Du, You-Hong Zhong   +5 more
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Flea infestation on small wild mammals in Gharyan, Northwest Libya [PDF]

Open Veterinary Journal, 2022
Background: Fleas play a major role as vectors for many pathogens that affect humans and livestock. Wild animals, especially wild rodents, are the most important hosts, acting as reservoir hosts for many flea species and pathogens.
Waleed Yousuf Mohammed Belgasm, Taher Shaibi, Salah Ghana   +2 more
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Phylogenetic patterns in regional flea assemblages from 6 biogeographic realms: strong links between flea and host phylogenetic turnovers and weak effects of phylogenetic originality on host specificity

Parasitology, 2023
We investigated phylogenetic patterns in flea assemblages from 80 regions in 6 biogeographic realms and asked whether (a) flea phylogenetic turnover is driven by host phylogenetic turnover, environmental dissimilarity or geographic distance; (b) the ...
Boris R. Krasnov, Georgy I. Shenbrot, Irina S. Khokhlova   +2 more
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Flea and tick treatment satisfaction, preference and adherence of dog owners in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia who treated their dog with fluralaner [PDF]

Open Veterinary Journal, 2020
Background: An extended duration flea and tick medication of the isoxazoline class (fluralaner) was introduced in 2014 in the United States and other countries.
Robert Lavan, Rob Armstrong, Karen Lipworth, Dorothy Normile, Hannah Newbury   +4 more
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Fleas and flea control

Veterinarski glasnik, 2002
Fleas as hemeatophagous arthropodes take part in the spreading of certain diseases such as bubonic plague, murine typhus, tick-borne typhus tularaemia, or can be transitory hosts for certain species of cestodes for dogs and cats. Depending on the type of host on which fleas persist and the habitat, measures that can be taken to control them can be only
Dautović, Živomir, Knežević, Dragan L., Zdravković, Danilo, Katić, Sofija   +3 more
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Rickettsia felis in Ctenocephalides spp. Fleas, Brazil

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
In June 2000, suspected cases of Brazilian spotted fever (BSF) occurred in Coronel Fabriciano Municipality, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Pooled fleas collected near two fatal cases contained rickettsial DNA. The nucleotide sequence alignment of the 391-bp
Riva P. Oliveira, Márcio A.M. Galvão, Claudio L. Mafra, Chequer B. Chamone, Simone B. Calic, Sergio U. Silva, David H. Walker   +6 more
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