The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea or the rat flea, is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus...
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A rat flea is a parasite of rats. There are at least four species: Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea, the primary...
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only on bats, and the Chimaeropsyllidae only on elephant shrews. The oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a vector of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium...
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Yersinia pestis (section Fleas as vector)
is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). It causes the disease plague, which caused the...
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epidemic, which was faster than would be expected if the primary vector was rat fleas causing bubonic plague. In 2022, it was discovered that there was a sudden...
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infected flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (the Oriental rat flea). Several flea species carried the bubonic plague, such as Pulex irritans (the human flea), Xenopsylla...
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common name roof rat. Black rats (or their ectoparasites) can carry a number of pathogens, of which bubonic plague (via the Oriental rat flea), typhus, Weil's...
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Rats were the reservoir hosts of the Y. pestis bacteria and the Oriental rat flea was the primary vector. The first-known case in England was a seaman...
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black and die. The bubonic and septicemic forms are generally spread by flea bites or handling an infected animal, whereas pneumonic plague is generally...
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pestis) which is transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea.. medterm.com Vidal, Pierre; Tibayrenc, Myrtille; Gonzalez, Jean-Paul...
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discovered and named, was the Bubonic plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, also known as the oriental rat flea, which he collected at Shendi, Sudan, on an...
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live action film, a clip showing an Oriental rat flea. During the production, a book called Your Friend the Rat: A Little Golden Book, which includes...
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Rickettsia typhi (section Classic rat-flea-rat cycle)
transmission from animal reservoirs containing R. typhi to humans: a classic rat-flea-rat cycle that is most well studied and common, and a secondary periodomestic...
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tactic, shooting the substance from a pocket near its eyes. One of the oriental rat flea mouth's two functions is to squirt partly digested blood into a bite...
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oriental rat flea and has been historically propagated along various trade routes to the west from China. The original introduction of the oriental rat...
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the plague overcome. Rob suggests that oriental rat fleas may be the carriers of the Black Death, and with rat poison the pest may be suppressed. Rob...
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Xenopsylla (category Flea stubs)
Xenopsylla is a flea genus in the family Pulicidae. Xenopsylla on www.faunaeur.org[dead link] Beaucournu, J. C.; Morel, P. C. (1990). "Xenopsylla culsancei...
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the first experimenters to demonstrate that plague was transmitted by rat fleas and was involved in developing a plague vaccine. Liston was born in Secunderabad...
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(formerly Tungidae) Cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) Northern rat flea (Nosopsyllus fasciatus) Human flea (Pulex irritans) Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)...
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infectious or contagious." The means of transmission, now known to be the Oriental rat flea, was also not ascertained. For several years, it had been widely accepted...
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Pulicidae (category Flea stubs)
The Pulicidae are a flea family in the order Siphonaptera. Currently, this family has 181 species in 27 genera. Of these, 16 are known from North America...
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Xenopsyllinae (category Flea stubs)
The Xenopsyllinae form a flea subfamily (or depending on classifications a tribe called Xenopsyllini) in the family Pulicidae. Pulicidae on www.faunaeur...
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the far flung nature of their travels the Crusaders imported the Oriental rat flea carrying the bacterium Yersinia pestis and eventually initiating the...
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new species of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from the Laotian rock-rat Laonastes aenigmamus Jenkins, Kilpatrick, Robinson & Timmins (Rodentia: Diatomyidae)"...
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through open wound contact or exposure to contaminated bodily fluids. Oriental rat fleas, which are thought to originate in northern Africa carry the bacteria...
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carry external parasites including, most commonly, lice, but also ticks, fleas, and mites. Common predators of the gopher include weasels, snakes, and...
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been used in oral preparations (as Comfortis) to treat C. felis, the cat flea, in canines and felines; the optimal dose set for canines is reported to...
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Fawlty Towers (redirect from Basil the Rat)
cod-Italian song "Shaddap You Face" (with the B-side "Waiter, There's a Spanish Flea in My Soup") but the record was not released because Dolce took out an injunction:...
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problem with radishes, but some insect pests can be a nuisance. The larvae of flea beetles live in the soil, but the adult beetles cause damage to the crop...
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[12] Epiphyas postvittana (light brown apple moth) Epitrix tuberis (tuber flea beetle) [13] Euwallacea fornicatus (Polyphagous and Kuroshio shot hole borers)...
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