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...

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...

only on bats, and the Chimaeropsyllidae only on elephant shrews. The oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a vector of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium...

is a facultative anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). It causes the disease plague, which caused the...

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...

infected flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (the Oriental rat flea). Several flea species carried the bubonic plague, such as Pulex irritans (the human flea), Xenopsylla...

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...

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...

pestis) which is transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea.. medterm.com Vidal, Pierre; Tibayrenc, Myrtille; Gonzalez, Jean-Paul...

black and die. The bubonic and septicemic forms are generally spread by flea bites or handling an infected animal, whereas pneumonic plague is generally...

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...

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...

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...

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...

oriental rat flea and has been historically propagated along various trade routes to the west from China. The original introduction of the oriental rat...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(formerly Tungidae) Cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) Northern rat flea (Nosopsyllus fasciatus) Human flea (Pulex irritans) Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis)...

The Xenopsyllinae form a flea subfamily (or depending on classifications a tribe called Xenopsyllini) in the family Pulicidae. Pulicidae on www.faunaeur...

the far flung nature of their travels the Crusaders imported the Oriental rat flea carrying the bacterium Yersinia pestis and eventually initiating the...

new species of chigger mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) from the Laotian rock-rat Laonastes aenigmamus Jenkins, Kilpatrick, Robinson & Timmins (Rodentia: Diatomyidae)"...

through open wound contact or exposure to contaminated bodily fluids. Oriental rat fleas, which are thought to originate in northern Africa carry the bacteria...

carry external parasites including, most commonly, lice, but also ticks, fleas, and mites. Common predators of the gopher include weasels, snakes, and...

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...

Ames. p. 506. Bacot, A (1914). "A study of the bionomics of the common rat fleas and other species associated with human habitations, with special reference...

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:...

With a body mass of 38 to 74 g (1.3 to 2.6 oz), it is a medium-sized rice rat. The fur is soft and is reddish to brownish on the upperparts and white to...