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Bioecology of fleas with a focus on the plague vector Xenopsylla Brasiliensis in Mandritsara district, Northern Madagascar [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The rat flea Xenopsylla brasiliensis, a known plague vector present in East and South Africa, has recently been identified in Mandritsara, Madagascar, a plague-endemic area.
Ravo Rakotobe Harimanana, Florent Sebbane, Voahangy Rasolofo, Romain Girod, Mireille Harimalala   +4 more
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An insight into the draft genome of the Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, together with its Wolbachia endosymbiont [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Background The Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a main vector of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Transcriptomic analysis of this insect and the interaction between Yersinia and the flea digestive tract have been the subject of ...
Stephen Lu, David M. Bland, Eric Dahlstrom, Neelam Redekar, Melina G. Guizzo, Kent Barbian, B. Joseph Hinnebusch, José M. C. Ribeiro   +7 more
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Transovarial transmission of Yersinia pestis in its flea vector Xenopsylla cheopis [PDF]

Nature Communications
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is endemic in certain regions due to a stable transmission cycle between rodents and their associated fleas.
Cassandra D. Pauling, Brenda T. Beerntsen, Qisheng Song, Deborah M. Anderson   +3 more
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Transcriptome analysis of Kunming mice responses to the bite of Xenopsylla cheopis [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors
Background Flea bites could trigger a series of complex molecular responses in the host. However, our understanding of the responses at the molecular level is still relatively limited.
Xinchang Lun, Yuan Shi, Yiguan Wang, Ning Zhao, Qiyong Liu, Fengxia Meng, Xiuping Song, Jun Wang, Liang Lu   +8 more
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Prevalence of Xenopsylla cheopis in Rattus rattus in the Salas district, Lambayeque

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2022
Objective: The study of the prevalence of Xenopsylla cheopis in rodents of the Rattus rattus species.The objective of the present investigation is to establish the prevalence of Xenopsylla cheopis in rodents of the Rattus rattus species.
Jarling F. Ortiz-Cusma, Kattya M. Martínez-Bravo, Sebastian Iglesias-Osores   +2 more
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Knockdown resistance mutations are common and widely distributed in Xenopsylla cheopis fleas that transmit plague in Madagascar. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2023
Background Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, remains an important disease in Madagascar, where the oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a primary vector.
Hutton SM, Miarinjara A, Stone NE, Raharimalala FN, Raveloson AO, Rakotobe Harimanana R, Harimalala M, Rahelinirina S, McDonough RF, Ames AD, Hepp C, Rajerison M, Busch JD, Wagner DM, Girod R.   +14 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) [PDF]

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, Xiaokai Jia, Ying Wang, Yuetao Yang, Junyun Wang, Chunhua Gao, Yong Wang   +6 more
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Rickettsia felis in Xenopsylla cheopis, Java, Indonesia [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Rickettsia typhi and R. felis, etiologic agents of murine typhus and fleaborne spotted fever, respectively, were detected in Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) collected from rodents and shrews in Java, Indonesia. We describe the first evidence of R.
Ju Jiang, Djoko W. Soeatmadji, Katherine M. Henry, Sutanti Ratiwayanto, Michael J. Bangs, Allen L. Richards   +5 more
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Acid phosphatase-like proteins, a biogenic amine and leukotriene-binding salivary protein family from the flea Xenopsylla cheopis [PDF]

Communications Biology, 2023
The salivary glands of hematophagous arthropods contain pharmacologically active molecules that interfere with host hemostasis and immune responses, favoring blood acquisition and pathogen transmission.
Stephen Lu, John F. Andersen, Christopher F. Bosio, B. Joseph Hinnebusch, José M. Ribeiro   +4 more
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Rickettsia typhi and R. felis in Rat Fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), Oahu, Hawaii [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
Rickettsia typhi (prevalence 1.9%) and R. felis (prevalence 24.8%) DNA were detected in rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) collected from mice on Oahu Island, Hawaii. The low prevalence of R. typhi on Oahu suggests that R. felis may be a more common cause of
Marina E. Eremeeva, Wesley R. Warashina, Michele M. Sturgeon, Arlene E. Buchholz, Gregory K. Olmsted, Sarah Y. Park, Paul V. Effler, Sandor E. Karpathy   +7 more
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