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 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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Design and Analysis of Engineered Proteins Containing Multi-Epitope and Immunodominant Domains Derived From ntigens [PDF]
Bioinformatics and Biology InsightsEpidemic louse-borne typhus caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted by the human body louse, remains a major public health threat in many developing regions. Historical records indicate that outbreaks have resulted in up to million cases annually,
Massrehaw Assnakew Abebe +5 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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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 +2 more
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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, Winston H Price
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Epidemic typhus in the Lithuanian army from 1919 to 1923 [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2022 nema
Šimkutė Viktorija, Gudienė Vilma
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Reporting of the Politika Belgrade daily newspaper on the epidemics of typhus in Serbia during the First World War [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2021 Background/Aim. The epidemic of typhus lasted for sever-al months in the Kingdom of Serbia during the First World War, and a vast number of people lost their lives. The objective of the paper was to investigate how the Politika, Belgrade daily newspaper,
Barović Vladimir +2 more
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