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Typhus in Buchenwald: Can the Story Be Told?

Ethics in Progress, 2020
Ludwik Fleck is known today primarily as pioneer in the social study of scientific knowledge. However, during World War II he was a prisoner in Buchenwald, where he and other prisoners produced a typhus vaccine for the Nazis, and where he witnessed ...
Ilana Löwy
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Vectors and Vector‐Borne Diseases: Biology, Epidemiology and Integrated Control Strategies

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vector‐Borne Diseases (VBDs), transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and sandflies, represent a significant threat to global health. These diseases can be caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths.
Roberta Rinaldi, Carmen Scieuzo, Federica De Stefano, Luca Masucci, Patrizia Falabella   +4 more
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Typhus Disease in the State of Azerbaijan During the Qajar Period (1796-1925) [PDF]

مجله علوم پزشکی صدرا
Typhus is a disease common to both humans and animals, transmitted by lice, ticks, or rats. The tick variant of this disease is more prevalent in colder regions such as Azerbaijan, where unsanitary living conditions and a local abundance of ticks may ...
Seyyed Alireza Golshani, Ghobad Mansourbakht, Mohammad Mahdi Parvizi   +2 more
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Impact of Environmental Exposure on Infant Sleep : The Exposome Approach

Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
This review explores how exposure to environmental pollutants during the first 1000 days of life may affect infant sleep. Evidence suggests potential links between chemical exposures and sleep disturbances, underscoring the need for more research on early‐life vulnerability and the impact of pollutants in air, diet, and breast milk.
Zeina Halbouty, Debora Tuka, Erwan Stephan‐Blanchard, Veronique Bach, Pierre Tourneux, Elodie Haraux, Karen Chardon   +6 more
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Murine Typhus and Leptospirosis as Causes of Acute Undifferentiated Fever, Indonesia [PDF]

, 2009
To investigate rickettsioses and leptospirosis among urban residents of Semarang, Indonesia, we tested the blood of 137 patients with fever. Evidence of Rickettsia typhi, the agent of murine typhus, was found in 9 patients.
Hartskeerl, Rudy A., Sakundarno, Mateus, Gasem, M. Hussein, Wagenaar, Jiri F.P., Isbandrio, Bambang B., Goris, Marga G.A.   +5 more
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High Rates of Homologous Recombination in the Mite Endosymbiont and Opportunistic Human Pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi

, 2010
The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust. PS was supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust (073135) and British Infection Society.Orientia tsutsugamushi is an intracellular alpha-proteobacterium which resides in trombiculid mites, and is the ...
Feil, EJ, Sonthayanon Piengchan, Wuthiekanun Vanaporn, Stuart D Blacksell, Sharon J Peacock, Blacksell, SD, Bentley Stephen D., Sharon J. Peacock, Bentley, SD, Day, Nicholas P. J., Feil Edward J., Day Nicholas P. J., Stephen D. Bentley, Sonthayanon, P, Chierakul, Wirongrong, Stephen D Bentley, Blacksell, Stuart D., Chierakul Wirongrong, Piengchan Sonthayanon, Stuart D. Blacksell, Day, NP, Bentley, Stephen D., Nicholas P J Day, Holden, MT, Wirongrong Chierakul, Mathew T G Holden, Peacock, Sharon J., Feil, Edward J., Wuthiekanun, Vanaporn, Peacock, SJ, Edward J Feil, Wuthiekanun, V, Nicholas P. J. Day, Sonthayanon, Piengchan, Blacksell, Stuart, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Edward J. Feil, Chierakul, W, Peacock Sharon J., Day, Nicholas, Holden, Mathew T. G., Holden, Matthew, Blacksell Stuart D., Holden Mathew T. G., Mathew T. G. Holden   +44 more
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Pyrethrum and the Second World War: Recontextualising DDT in the Narrative of Wartime Insect Control

HoST, 2022
Historians have long recognised that DDT’s fame began with extraordinary propaganda late in the Second World War, yet heroic narratives that centre the chemical still shape historical understanding.
Clarke Sabine, Brown Richard J. E.
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Renewed Risk for Epidemic Typhus Related to War and Massive Population Displacement, Ukraine

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii bacteria and transmitted through body lice (Pediculus humanus corporis), was a major public health threat in Eastern Europe as a consequence of World War II.
Paul N. Newton, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Dennis Tappe, Allen L. Richards   +3 more
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ON TYPHUS FEVER, [PDF]

The Lancet
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Discursive Power, Civilian Agency, Wartime Duress, and Resilience: Letters to the Authorities in the Blockade of Leningrad

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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