Inactivation of SAM-methyltransferase is the mechanism of attenuation of a historic louse borne typhus vaccine strain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Louse borne typhus (also called epidemic typhus) was one of man's major scourges, and epidemics of the disease can be reignited when social, economic, or political systems are disrupted.
Yan Liu +4 more
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The Maturation of the International Health Crisis Response: The Polish Typhus Epidemic of 1916–1923 Compared to the African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic of 2013–2016: Part I, the Polish Epidemic [PDF]
EpidemiologiaPoland suffered an epidemic of louse-borne typhus from 1916–1923, with 400,000 cases and more than 130,000 deaths. The causative factors were depressed economic conditions and a refugee crisis that engulfed Poland after World War I.
Gregory M. Anstead
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Prevalence and Susceptibility Status of Body Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) (Anoplura: Pediculidae) to Deltamethrin in Urmia City, Iran (2024) [PDF]
Journal of Arthropod-Borne DiseasesBackground: The body louse spreads diseases such as epidemic typhus and louse-borne relapsing fever and has shown resistance to various insecticides.
Samira Firooziyan +4 more
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THE EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY LOUSE, PEDICULUS HUMANUS CORPORIS, WITH MURINE AND EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE TYPHUS STRAINS [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1945 Experiments are described which demonstrate that human body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), were infected experimentally with murine and epidemic louse-borne strains of typhus fever by feeding on suitably prepared rabbits. Details of the two methods of infection, the "bleb technique" and the "I.V. technique," are presented.
J C, Snyder, C M, Wheeler
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Rickettsia typhi in Southern California: A Growing Flea-Borne Threat. [PDF]
Am J Trop Med Hyg, 2023 Rickettsia typhi is a fl ea-borne bacterium that causes an acute undifferentiated febrile illness in humans. 1 Disease attributed to R. typhi has various descriptive names that characterize its ecology and epidemiology. Flea-borne typhus names its vector;
Blanton LS.
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The Biology and Taxonomy of Head and Body Lice: Implications for Louse-Borne Disease Prevention [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 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.
Bonilla, Denise L. +3 more
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Jail Fever (Epidemic Typhus) Outbreak in Burundi
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1997 We recently investigated a suspected outbreak of epidemic typhus in a jail in Burundi. We tested sera of nine patients by microimmunofluorescence for antibodies to Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia typhi. We also amplified and sequenced from lice gene
D. Raoult +6 more
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Epidemic Louse-Borne Typhus [PDF]
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine, 2020 Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Didier Raoult
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Development of a Technique Using Artificial Membrane for In Vitro Rearing of Body Lice Pediculus humanus humanus [PDF]
InsectsHuman lice are the only hematophagous ectoparasites specific to human hosts. They transmit epidemic typhus, trench fever and relapsing fever, diseases which have already caused millions of deaths worldwide.
Alissa Hammoud +6 more
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STUDIES ON THE INTEREPIDEMIC SURVIVAL OF LOUSE BORNE EPIDEMIC TYPHUS FEVER [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1955 W. H. Price
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