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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 & VectorsBackground 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 +10 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 +2 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 +4 more
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Insect ectoparasites from wild passerine birds in the Azores Islands
Parasite, 2020 A total of 266 wild passerine birds (Passeriformes) representing eight species and nine subspecies from three islands of the Archipelago of the Azores were examined for ectoparasites. Two species of louse-flies Ornithomya avicularia and Ornithoica turdi (
Oslejskova Lucie +6 more
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Flea Communities on Small Mammals in Lowland Environment
Ekológia (Bratislava), 2020 The landscape of south-western Slovakia is characterised by anthropogenous reshaping, while fragments of undisturbed, waterlogged habitats have been preserved in what remains of the meandering ancient Žitava River.
Baláž Ivan, Zigová Martina
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae)
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2022 Xenopsylla cheopis, also called oriental rat flea, is an ectoparasite as well as disease vector for murine typhus and bubonic plague. In the study, the whole mitochondrial genome of X.
Furong Wei +6 more
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Mitochondrial phylogenomics provides insights into the taxonomy and phylogeny of fleas
Parasites & Vectors, 2022 Background Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) are obligatory hematophagous ectoparasites of humans and animals and serve as vectors of many disease-causing agents.
Yu Zhang +5 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of the cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 The cat flea, Ctenocephalides fells, is widely recognized as a global veterinary pest and a vector of pathogenic bacteria. We recently reported on the C.
Victoria I. Verhoeve +5 more
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Ciência Rural, 2005 Descreve-se o parasitismo de Rhynchopsyllus pulex (Siphonaptera: Tungidae) em Nyctinomops laticaudatus (Chiroptera) no município de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.The parasitism of Rhynchopsyllus pulex (Siphonaptera: Tungidae) is described in ...
Sílvia Gonzalez Monteiro +3 more
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Flea (Insecta: Siphonaptera) Family Diversity
Diversity, 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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