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Fleas

open access: yesEDIS, 1999
This document provides an overview of fleas, including their biology, life cycle, and the health issues they cause. Fleas are small, blood-sucking insects that can infest pets and homes, causing itching and irritation.
P.G. Koehler
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RNA virome of ticks and fleas infesting Marmota himalayana from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Microbiome
Background Ticks and fleas are important vectors and hosts for various emergent human pathogens, such as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, and tick-borne encephalitis virus.
Wentao Zhu   +5 more
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Flea (Insecta: Siphonaptera) Family Diversity

open access: yesDiversity, 2023
This overview of extant Siphonaptera lists 19 families with major hosts and their general distribution, estimated numbers of genera, species, and subspecies, with a brief taxonomic and phylogenetic review.
Robert L. Bossard   +4 more
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Detection of Bartonella spp. in fleas by MALDI-TOF MS. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has recently emerged in the field of entomology as a promising method for the identification of arthropods and the detection of associated pathogens.An ...
Basma El Hamzaoui   +5 more
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First Molecular Evidence of Pathogens in Fleas Collected from Dogs in Northern Vietnam

open access: yesPathogens, 2021
Fleas are considered as hosts for a wide range of pathogens that cause emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases worldwide. Data on fleas and flea-borne pathogens (FBPs) in the international literature are limited in Vietnam.
Thom Do   +3 more
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Fleas and flea-borne diseases [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2010
Flea-borne infections are emerging or re-emerging throughout the world, and their incidence is on the rise. Furthermore, their distribution and that of their vectors is shifting and expanding. This publication reviews general flea biology and the distribution of the flea-borne diseases of public health importance throughout the world, their principal ...
Bitam, Idir   +4 more
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Arctic fleas are not fussy eaters: Bartonella bacteria may hitchhike between birds and mammals in a tundra ecosystem

open access: yesArctic Science, 2023
Within the terrestrial Arctic ecosystem at Karrak Lake, Nunavut, Bartonella bacteria (B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii and B. henselae) have been detected in avian nest fleas (Ceratophyllus vagabundus vagabundus) and the blood of Arctic foxes (Vulpes ...
Kayla J. Buhler   +4 more
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Flea Infestations on Domestic Animals in Nafusa Mountain Region, North-West Libya

open access: yesمجلة المختار للعلوم, 2022
Fleas are ectoparasitic pests on domestic animals and act as vectors of many pathogens to humans. Here, we aim to identify the fleas that parasitize on domestic animals and their seasonality in the Nafusa Mountain region (Gharyan, Zintan, and Nalut ...
Waleed Y. M. Aboulqassim   +2 more
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Comparison of Zoonotic Bacterial Agents in Fleas Collected from Small Mammals or Host-Seeking Fleas from a Ugandan Region Where Plague Is Endemic

open access: yesmSphere, 2017
Fleas (n = 407) were collected from small mammals trapped inside huts and surroundings of homesteads in five villages within the Arua and Zombo districts of Uganda. The most common flea species were Dinopsyllus lypusus (26%) and Xenopsylla cheopis (50%).
Ying Bai   +8 more
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Monitoring results of plague vector fleas in Yulong ,Yunnan Province from 2019 to 2021

open access: yesShanghai yufang yixue, 2023
ObjectiveTo analyze the community structure and dynamics of parasitic fleas on the body surface of host animals and nested fleas in different seasons in the natural foci of wild rat plague in Yulong County,Yunnan Province, to explore the relationship ...
LI Yuqiong   +7 more
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