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The Siphonaptera of Utah [PDF]

Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America, 1959
George P. Holland
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Brazilian fleas (Hexapoda: Siphonaptera): diversity, host associations, and new records on small mammals from the Atlantic Rainforest, including Rickettsia screening [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background Insects belonging to the Siphonaptera order are obligatory ectoparasites of vertebrates, including humans. Their life cycle is marked by holometabolous development, and adults are adapted to have a bloodmeal out of their hosts.
Isabella Pereira Pesenato, Jaciara de Oliveira Jorge Costa, Fernando de Castro Jacinavicius, Ricardo Bassini-Silva, Herbert Sousa Soares, Thiago Fakelmann, Giovanna Nosberto Castelli, Gledson Bandeira Maia, Valeria Castilho Onofrio, Fernanda Aparecida Nieri-Bastos, Arlei Marcili   +10 more
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New Siphonaptera

Novitates Zoologicae., 1926
Karl Jordan
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the flea Ceratophyllus wui (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018
The complete mitogenome sequence of the flea, Ceratophyllus wui (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae), was sequenced. The 18,081 bp long genome has the standard metazoan complement of 37 genes. These genes contain 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes,
Liangfei Tan, Xuhua Guan, Lingyao Zhang, Fen Zhu, Chaoliang Lei   +4 more
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A review of the fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) from Argentina. [PDF]

Zootaxa, 2016
The Order Siphonaptera comprises cosmopolitan haematophagous ectoparasites of birds and mammals. More than ten years have past since the last list of species known for Argentina. Herein we provide a review of the fleas from the country, which includes an
M. Lareschi, Juliana P. Sanchez, A. Autino   +2 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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Diversity of lice and flea- and lice-borne pathogens in free-ranging dogs in Uzbekistan. [PDF]

Med Vet Entomol
Lice (Trichodectes canis, Linognathus africanus and Bovicola bovis) and fleas were collected from dogs across five regions of Uzbekistan and subjected to molecular analysis. Molecular screening detected Dipylidium caninum and Bartonella spp. in fleas, while Rickettsia spp. were identified in both fleas and lice.
Panait LC, Safarov A, Deak G, Ionică AM, Mihalca AD.   +4 more
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A new Early Cretaceous flea from China [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020
Fleas are highly specialized holometabolic insects. So far, only 16 species of fossil fleas in five families have been reported due to the rare fossil records.
Yanjie Zhang , Chungkun Shih, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Dong Ren, Taiping Gao   +4 more
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A review of public health important fleas (Insecta, Siphonaptera) and flea-borne diseases in India

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2022
Fleas (Insecta, Siphonaptera) are important vectors of plague and murine typhus in many parts of the world. Currently, about 2700 flea species were described in the world.
V. Rajamannar, R. Govindarajan, Ashwani Kumar, P. Samuel   +3 more
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Bartonella, Rickettsia, Babesia, and Hepatozoon Species in Fleas (Siphonaptera) Infesting Small Mammals of Slovakia (Central Europe)

Pathogens, 2022
Fleas (Siphonaptera) as obligate, blood-feeding ectoparasites are, together with ticks, hosted by small mammals and can transmit causative agents of serious infections.
E. Špitalská, Lenka Minichová, Z. Hamšíková, M. Stanko, M. Kazimírová   +4 more
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