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Insect and Mice Infestations in Gaza Displacement Camps: A Field-Based Study on Vector-Borne Diseases Amid the 2023-2025 Gaza War. [PDF]
Public Health ChallGRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Conflict‐driven destruction in Gaza has caused water and sanitation collapse, leading to infestations of rodents and insects, escalating public health risks among displaced populations. ABSTRACT The current study investigates the severe environmental and public health impacts resulting from the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip ...
Dardona Z, Boussaa S.
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Acta Pharmaceutica, 2023 Voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channels play a role in the cellular processes of various cancer cells, including lung cancer cells. We previously identified and reported a salivary protein from the Xenopsylla cheopis, FS48, which exhibited inhibitory activity ...
Weichen Xiong +9 more
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An Abnormal Form of Female Rat Flea, Xenopsylla Cheopis Roths. [PDF]
Nature, 1961 ROTHSCHILD, in 1911, separated the three species of fleas, X. cheopis, X. astia and X. brasiliensis of the genus Xenopsylla found on rats. X. cheopis is widely distributed in the tropics and is the principal plague flea in India. The three species (♀♀)mentioned here can be easily identified by the shape of the spermatheca.
M. I. D. Sharma, G. C. Joshi
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F1000Research, 2021 Background: This study aimed to determine the presence and species of the rats and shrews that can potentially cause leptospirosis in West Jakarta, Indonesia, and the species of ectoparasites found in them.
Dewi Susanna +2 more
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Transovarial transmission of Yersinia pestis in its flea vector, Xenopsylla cheopis
Research Square, 2023 Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of bubonic plague, a deadly flea-borne disease responsible for three historic pandemics. Today annual cases of human disease occur worldwide following exposure to Y.
Deborah Anderson +3 more
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Field evaluation of a 0.005% fipronil bait, orally administered to Rhombomys opimus, for control of fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) and phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 Plague (Yersinia pestis) and zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (Leishmania major) are two rodent-associated diseases which are vectored by fleas and phlebotomine sand flies, respectively.
David M Poché +8 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 Murine typhus is a flea-borne zoonotic disease that has been recently reported on Reunion Island, an oceanic volcanic island located in the Indian Ocean.
Annelise Tran +10 more
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What’s Eating You? Oriental Rat Flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) [PDF]
Cutis, 2020 The oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) is an ectoparasite of small mammals and a vector of many diseases for which humans are incidental hosts. This species of flea is most widely known for carrying Yersinia pestis and Rickettsia typhi, the causative agents of the plague and murine typhus, respectively. Public health issues related to X cheopis may
Lauren E Krug, Dirk M. Elston
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, 2023 Genus Xenopsylla Glinkiewicz, 1907 Xenopsylla Glinkiewicz, 1907: 385.
Kitrytė, Neringa, Baltrūnaitė, Laima
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Flea surveillance on wild mammals in northern region of Xinjiang, northwestern China
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2020 Flea distribution in northern region of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and fluctuations of the annual fleas index in Alataw Pass were investigated.
Chang Shu +8 more
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