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Tick-, Flea-, and Louse-Borne Diseases of Public Health and Veterinary Significance in Nigeria

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Mosquito-borne diseases are common high-impact diseases in tropical and subtropical areas. However, other non-mosquito vector-borne pathogens (VBPs) may share their geographic distribution, seasonality, and clinical manifestations, thereby contributing ...
Oluwaseun Oguntomole, Ugochukwu Nwaeze, Marina E. Eremeeva   +2 more
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Characterizing the microbiome of ectoparasitic louse flies feeding on migratory raptors.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Louse flies (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) are obligate ectoparasites that often cause behavioral, pathogenic, and evolutionary effects on their hosts. Interactions between ectoparasites and avian hosts, especially migrating taxa, may influence avian pathogen ...
Rebecca A McCabe, Joseph P Receveur, Jennifer L Houtz, Kayli L Thomas, M Eric Benbow, Jennifer L Pechal, John R Wallace   +6 more
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The biology and taxonomy of head and body lice--implications for louse-borne disease prevention. [PDF]

, 2013
Sucking lice (Phthiraptera: Anoplura) are obligate blood-feeding ectoparasites of placental mammals including humans. Worldwide, more than 550 species have been described and many are specific to a particular host species of mammal [1].
Bonilla, Denise L., Gregory A Dasch, Denise L Bonilla, Dasch, Gregory A., Marina E Eremeeva, Eremeeva, Marina E., Lance A Durden, Durden, Lance A.   +7 more
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Detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae and Coxiella burnetii in long-tailed ground squirrels (Spermophilus undulatus) and their ectoparasites

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Long-tailed ground squirrels (LTGRs, Spermophilus undulatus) are known as reservoirs of multiple arthropod-borne pathogens, such as Yersinia pestis and Bartonella rochalimae.
Xiaoshuang Han, Xiaoshuang Han, Ziheng Liu, Ziheng Liu, Zhixian Jiang, Shanshan Zhao, Shanshan Zhao, Sándor Hornok, Sándor Hornok, Meihua Yang, Gang Liu, Gang Liu, Yuanzhi Wang, Yuanzhi Wang   +13 more
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Composition and distribution of lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) on Colombian and Peruvian birds: New data on louse-host association in the Neotropics

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2018
The diversity of permanent ectoparasites is likely underestimated due to the difficulty of collecting samples. Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) are permanent ectoparasites of birds and mammals; there are approximately 5,000 species described and many more ...
Juliana Soto-Patiño, Gustavo Londoño, Kevin Johnson, Jason Weckstein, Jorge Avendaño, Therese Catanach, Andrew Sweet, Andrew Cook, Jill Jankowski, Julie Allen   +9 more
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Louse and host bird body sizes by louse families

, 2016
Louse species (families), louse female total body length (obtained from taxonomic descriptions, see Supplements of our paper), host birds name and body mass (obtained from Dunning, 2008).
Rozsa, Lajos, Andrea Harnos (3345980), Lajos Rozsa (3345992), Sarah E. Bush (3345986), Zsolt Lang (3345989), Krisztián Szabó (479999), Petrás, Dóra, Szabó, Krisztián, Bush, Sarah E., Harnos, Andrea, Dóra Petrás (3345983), Lang, Zsolt   +11 more
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The heterodimeric amino acid transporters (HAT) of the SLC7/SLC3 family: A structure−function relationships and relevance to human pathology

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Heterodimeric amino acid transporters consist of SLC7 and SLC3 family proteins arranged in a conserved structural organization. They regulate nutrient transport across cell membranes, supporting essential cellular functions. These transporters also contribute to xenobiotic/drug uptake and distribution.
Mariafrancesca Scalise, Tiziano Mazza, Raffaella Scanga, Lara Console, Michele Galluccio, Cesare Indiveri   +5 more
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Phylogenetic relationship between the endosymbiont “Candidatus Riesia pediculicola” and its human louse host

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Background The human louse (Pediculus humanus) is a haematophagous ectoparasite that is intimately related to its host. It has been of great public health concern throughout human history.
Alissa Hammoud, Meriem Louni, Dorothée Missé, Sébastien Cortaredona, Florence Fenollar, Oleg Mediannikov   +5 more
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Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for louse-borne infectious diseases, like trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic fever, which are caused by Bartonella quintana, Borrelia recurrentis,
Yuan-Ping Deng, Yi-Tian Fu, Chaoqun Yao, Renfu Shao, Xue-Ling Zhang, De-Yong Duan, Guo-Hua Liu   +6 more
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Comparing the paths of Hedgehog release in artificial and natural settings

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Hh morphogens require solubilization factors to overcome their tight association with the plasma membrane and signal to distant cells, but the precise functions of these factors are controversial. Here, we use published in vivo observations as the most relevant evidence to test their suggested functions and discuss contradictions and gaps between in ...
Janna Puschmann, Kay Grobe
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