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Louse- and flea-borne rickettsioses: biological and genomic analyses
, 2009 In contrast to 15 or more validated and/or proposed tick-borne spotted fever group species, only three named medically important rickettsial species are associated with insects.
Beier-Sexton, Magda +9 more
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 348-361, July 2024.Abstract This article analyzes Tolstoy’s narrative on the Moscow poor in What Should We Do Then? in the context of the tradition of slum literature in late nineteenth‐century Russia. It focuses on the interplay between the human body and the environment in a literary tradition that is heavily influenced by the biomedical discourse of degeneration.
Riccardo Nicolosi
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Typhus epidemic in Basel in the 19th century
, 2023 The lecture presents after a short introduction in the historical context 1. the course of a typhus epidemic in Basel in 1814, when coalition troops of the European monarchies were accomodated in the town during the war against napoleonic France, 2 ...
Zihlmann, Patricia
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Louse (Insecta : Phthiraptera) mitochondrial 12S rRNA secondary structure is highly variable [PDF]
, 2002 Lice are ectoparasitic insects hosted by birds and mammals. Mitochondrial 12S rRNA sequences obtained from lice show considerable length variation and are very difficult to align.
Page, R.D.M. +2 more
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Cows, Communities, and Religious Responses to the 1865–66 British Rinderpest Outbreak*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 153-171, June 2024.The devastating outbreak of rinderpest in the British Isles in 1865–66 — the so‐called “cattle plague” — was a significant event in Victorian Britain, one that did much to shape British agriculture, animal disease control, and veterinary medicine. This article argues that the cattle plague also had long‐term significance for the relationship between ...
Joseph Hardwick
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Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society
WIREs Climate Change, Volume 15, Issue 1, January/February 2024.Schematic model of the interaction of key environmental and societal factors determining famine risks. We summarize the impact order between climatic shocks, famine resilience and vulnerability, famine mitigation, and short‐term and long‐term effects and impacts of famines on society.
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist +2 more
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Detection and characterization of rickettsiae in Western Australia [PDF]
, 2007 The aim of this study was to address the shortfall in current, in-depth knowledge of Western Australian rickettsiae investigating in particular, the role of native and feral animals as reservoir hosts.
Owen, Helen Clare
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Evidence of a Louse-Borne Outbreak Involving Typhus in Douai, 1710-1712 during the War of Spanish Succession [PDF]
, 2010 Background: The new field of paleomicrobiology allows past outbreaks to be identified by testing dental pulp of human remains with PCR.Methods: We identified a mass grave in Douai, France dating from the early XVIIIth century.
Aboudharam, Gérard +17 more
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Louse-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia recurrentis) in asylum seekers from Eritrea, the Netherlands, July 2015 [PDF]
, 2015 Two patients from Eritrea, recently arrived in the Netherlands, presented with fever and were investigated for malaria. Bloodfilms showed spirochetes but no blood parasites.
Sinha, B.; id_orcid +6 more
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Investigation of bacterial infection and immunity in the body louse [PDF]
, 2023 The human body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) is a host-specific hematophagous ectoparasite that frequently infests populations experiencing a breakdown of hygienic conditions.
Kress, Lauren Mae
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