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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2020 Introducción. La infestación por piojos de la cabeza en humanos (Pediculus humanus capitis) se conoce como pediculosis capitis. Estos parásitos pueden ser vectores de enfermedades infecciosas con potencial reemergente. Objetivos.
David López-Valencia +4 more
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Renewed Risk for Epidemic Typhus Related to War and Massive Population Displacement, Ukraine
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii bacteria and transmitted through body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), was a major public health threat in Eastern Europe as a consequence of World War II.
Paul N. Newton +3 more
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Polyphemus pediculus (L.) (Cladocera) as a possible indicator of water quality [PDF]
, 1980 Usually stenobiotic species are used as hydrobiological indicators of the degree of pollution in natural waters. Cladocera are eurybiotic organisms, therefore their role as specific indicators of the water quality is considered to be insignificant ...
Butorina, L.G.
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Prevalence of Pediculus humanus capitis in a school of low socio-economy area in Rampur (U.P), India [PDF]
, 2009 The prevalence of head louse Pediculus humanus capitis on the school children of a low socio-economy area of Rampur, India was found to be 56% (n=300). Female children appeared lousier.
Ahmad, Aftab +3 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT Through a detailed assessment of nonspecific stress markers in 67 individuals (47 under 8 years old), this paper investigates the health conditions of preadults in Quebrada Chupacigarro Cemetery (QCC), North‐Central Coast of Peru, during the transition between the Middle and Late Formative periods (500–400 bc), a critical time of ...
Luis Pezo‐Lanfranco +7 more
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Molecular Evolution of Pediculus humanus and the Origin of Clothing [PDF]
Current Biology, 2003 The human head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) and body louse (P. humanus corporis or P. h. humanus) are strict, obligate human ectoparasites that differ mainly in their habitat on the host : the head louse lives and feeds exclusively on the scalp, whereas the body louse feeds on the body but lives in clothing.
Manfred Kayser +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2025.The Neopsylla hongyangensis is an important medical insect that transmits plague. We sequenced the mitogenome of N. hongyangensis and constructed a phylogenetic tree for the order Siphonaptera. In addition, we explored the mitogenomic evolution of the orders Siphonaptera and Phthiraptera, which both belong to the class Insects, on warm‐blooded animals ...
Xiaoxia Lin, Ju Pu, Wenge Dong
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On the nutrition of Polyphemus pediculus (L.). [Translation from: Trudy Instituta Biologii Vnutrennykh Vodnany 12(15) 170-174, 1966.] [PDF]
, 1966 Many sides of the biology of Polyphemus pediculus are adequately studied at the present time. Most complicated is the question of its feeding. Dissection does not give an idea of the composition of the food, since Polyphemus strongly grinds its food with
Butorina, L.G., Sorokin, Yu I.
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Insect Science, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 301-320, February 2025.Texas leaf cutter ant (Atta texana) populations have expanded northward and their obligate symbiotic fungus has increased cold tolerance. The ants have exquisitely temperature sensitive antennae; here, we find the antennae express a subset of six transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, including HsTRPA.
Julia M. York +4 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007 Some epidemiological characteristics of head lice, Pediculus capitis, were studied using two procedures: cut hair analysis and head inspection. Higher prevalence rates were observed in the middle and at the end of the school terms.
Raquel Borges +3 more
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