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The Fox and the Fleas [PDF]

open access: bronzeNature, 1911
THE belief that the fox rids himself of fleas by the device to which Prof. Hughes has directed attention in NATURE is a long-established one. This is shown by the following passage from Allan Ramsay's “Gentle Shepherd”, which appeared in the year 1725:— “As fast as flaes skip to the tate o woo, Whilk slee tod lowrie hauds without his mow, When he to ...
HEBER GREEN
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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 ...
Michael F. Whiting   +4 more
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Fleas and flea control [PDF]

open access: yesVeterinarski 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   +3 more
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Effect of host and environment-related factors on fleas of the pichi, an armadillo from Argentina [PDF]

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2020
The pichi (Zaedyus pichiy; Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae) is an armadillo whose ectoparasite fauna is composed of ticks and fleas. Fleas were collected from 218 pichis in southern Mendoza, Argentina, in summer and winter of 2015 and 2016.
MARIA CECILIA EZQUIAGA   +5 more
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Fleas (Siphonaptera) of small mammals in the northern taiga of Western Siberia

open access: yesРоссийский паразитологический журнал, 2023
The purpose of the research is to identify the composition of fleas, and infection rates in small mammals in the northern taiga of Western Siberia; and to summarize information on fleas in the studied area. Materials and methods.
V. P. Starikov   +3 more
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Molecular and serological evidence of flea-associated typhus group and spotted fever group rickettsial infections in Madagascar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This research was supported by the Wellcome Trust (RCDF and Senior Fellowship to ST, #081705 and #095171), the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, and the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, a Division of the Armed Forces Health ...
Harrison, Thomas Alan   +6 more
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Prevalence and infection load dynamics of Rickettsia felis in actively feeding cat fleas. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2008
Rickettsia felis is a flea-associated rickettsial pathogen recurrently identified in both colonized and wild-caught cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis. We hypothesized that within colonized fleas, the intimate relationship between R. felis and C.
Kathryn E Reif   +4 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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