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    Human flea (redirect from Pulex irritans)
    The human flea (Pulex irritans) – once also called the house flea – is a cosmopolitan flea species that has, in spite of the common name, a wide host spectrum...
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    the holotype locality). The specific name, "pulex", is also the generic name of the flea, Pulex irritans. This references the tiny size of the species...
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    species: Pulex alvarezi Barrera, 1955 Pulex echidnophagoides (Wagner, 1933) Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 Pulex larimerius Lewis et Grimaldi, 1997 Pulex porcinus...
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    rat flea). Several flea species carried the bubonic plague, such as Pulex irritans (the human flea), Xenopsylla cheopis, and Ceratophyllus fasciatus. Xenopsylla...
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    Hyalomma anatolicum, H. scupense and H. asiaticum), four flea species (Pulex irritans, Xenopsylla nesokiae, Ctenocephanlides canis and C. felis), and one...
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    entrance. The site provided the earliest known record of the human flea (Pulex irritans) in Europe. The Grooved Ware People who built Skara Brae were primarily...
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    Yellow Jackets (sting) Paper wasps (sting) Fleas (bite) Human flea Pulex irritans Chigoe flea Tunga penetrans Lice (bite) Head lice Body lice Crab lice...
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    erinacei are caught whilst traveling. Fleas that feed on red foxes include Pulex irritans, Ctenocephalides canis and Paraceras melis. Ticks such as Ixodes ricinus...
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    fleas Paraceras melis (the badger flea), Chaetopsylla trichosa and Pulex irritans (the human flea), the lice Trichodectes melis and the ticks Ixodes ricinus...
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    being X. astia, X. bantorum, X. brasiliensis, Ctenocephalides felis, Pulex irritans, Leptopsylla segnis, and Nosopsyllus fasciatus. X. cheopis has been...
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  • columbae – Columbicola columbae Pediculus pari Pediculus apis Pulex irritans – human flea Pulex penetrans – chigoe flea Tunga penetrans Acarus elephantinus...
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  • rattus, Rattus norvegicus, and the common fleas Xenopsylla cheopis and Pulex irritans with modern studies of plague epidemiology, particularly in India, where...
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  • cati Oestrus ovis Otodectes cynotis Phlebotomus species Psoroptes ovis Pulex irritans Rhipicephalus sanguineus Sarcoptes equi Sarcophaga carnaria Tabanus...
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    Dipetalonema reconditum, and demonstrated the parasite life cycle in fleas, Pulex irritans. He invented the genus of threadworms Strongyloides. He named the spider...
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    C. globiceps, Paraceras melis, Ctenocephalides felis, C. canis and Pulex irritans.[citation needed] Although they can be infected with mange, it does...
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    (Ctenocephalides felis) Northern rat flea (Nosopsyllus fasciatus) Human flea (Pulex irritans) Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) Bedbug (Cimex lectularius) Cimex...
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    at Skara Brae provided the earliest known record of the human flea, Pulex irritans in Europe. The islands of Colonsay and Oronsay are home to about 50...
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    kvittar det lika", "På källaren Fimmelstången", "Om våren", "Brådska", "Pulex Irritans människoloppa", "Nasarevalsen", "Som ett ödehus", "Vid diktens port"...
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  • Other ectoparasites include chewing lice, sucking lice and the fleas Pulex irritans and Ctenocephalides canis. Endoparasites known to infect wolves include:...
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  • Microbiol 125A, 1974: pp. 213-216. Karimi, Y. and A. Farhang-Azad, [Pulex irritans, a human flea in the plaque infection focus at General Mobutu Lakd region...
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  • breviceps - ssp. orientalis Ctenocephalides canis Ctenocephalides felis Pulex irritans Xenopsylla cheopis Lentistivalius ferinus Stivalius aporus Stivalius...
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  • species. Flea vectors include species such as Ctenocephalides canis, Pulex irritans, Pulex simulans, and Echidnophaga gallinacea, whereas the lice species...
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  • Ctenocephalides canis (Curtis, 1826) Ctenocephalides felis (Bouche, 1835) Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild, 1903) Xenopsylla vexabilis...
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  • de la Sociedad Rural Argentina, t. LIII, pág. 15-17, 1919. 161. El Pulex irritans L., parásito del cerdo, Anales de la Sociedad Rural Argentina, t. LIII...
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