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    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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    Chimaeropsyllidae only on elephant shrews. The oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, is a vector of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic...
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    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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    flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (the Oriental rat flea). Several flea species carried the bubonic plague, such as Pulex irritans (the human flea), Xenopsylla cheopis...
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    anaerobic organism that can infect humans via the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). It causes the disease plague, which caused the Plague of Justinian...
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    spread of the bubonic plague. It is mainly a disease in the fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) that infested the rats, making the rats themselves the first victims...
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  • parasite of rats. There are at least four species: Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea, the primary vector for bubonic...
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    typhus or flea-borne typhus, is a form of typhus transmitted by fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), usually on rats, in contrast to epidemic typhus which is usually...
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    transmission of bubonic plague from rats to humans are the fleas Xenopsylla cheopis that dwell on infected rats. Paul-Louis Simond was born in Beaufort-sur-Gervanne...
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    The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) engorged with blood. This species of flea is the primary vector for the transmission of Yersinia pestis, the...
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    determine coverage patterns and survivability of the tropical rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) for use in biological warfare as disease vector. The fleas used in...
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  • known as "Operation Big Itch". During Big Itch, uninfected rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) were loaded into the E14 and air-dropped over the proving ground...
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    microorganism Yersinia pestis, carried by the tropical rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), which preyed on black rats living in European cities during the...
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  • bacterium's lifecycle classically involves the Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) and the black (Rattus rattus) and brown (Rattus norvegicus) rats...
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    time plagues such as bubonic plague, caused mainly by rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis, a parasite found on brown rats), "red" dysentery and other scourges...
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  • found on this species include the mite Laelaps nuttalli. and the flea Xenopsylla cheopis. Cassola, F. (2019). "Myomyscus yemeni". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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    bacteria are transferred from the blood of infected rats to flea (Xenopsylla cheopis). The bacillus multiplies in the stomach of the flea, blocking it...
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    1954, was designed to test munitions loaded with uninfected fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis). In May 1955 over 300,000 uninfected mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) were...
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    Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) (AP) Malaria, Dengue fever, chikungunya, yellow fever, other arboviruses Oriental flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) Plague, murine typhus...
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  • 1954, was designed to test munitions loaded with uninfected fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis). In May 1955 over 300,000 yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti)...
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    B.. 1949. Transmission of Salmonella enteritidis by the rat fleas Xenopsylla cheopis and Nosopsyllus fasciatus. Public Health Reports. 64(30): pp.933-941...
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    on plague vector control in Madagascar: Susceptibility status of Xenopsylla cheopis to 12 insecticides. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10(2), e0004414...
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    Two million people infected. Bubonic plague – Principal vector: Xenopsylla cheopis At least 100 flea species can transmit plague. Re-emerging major threat...
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    (2007). Early-phase transmission of Yersinia pestis by unblocked Xenopsylla cheopis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) is as efficient as transmission by blocked...
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  • which he discovered and named, was the Bubonic plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, also known as the oriental rat flea, which he collected at Shendi...
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    camel's bone marrow, from the jird (Meriones libycus) and from fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) captured at the camel's corral. Meat of dromedary served as food...
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  • biology of Rattus rattus, Rattus norvegicus, and the common fleas Xenopsylla cheopis and Pulex irritans with modern studies of plague epidemiology, particularly...
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    Karpathy SE (October 2008). "Rickettsia typhi and R. felis in rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis), Oahu, Hawaii". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 14 (10): 1613–5. doi:10...
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  • 1954, was designed to test munitions loaded with uninfected fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis). Big Itch went awry when some of the fleas escaped into the plane...
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    (Nosopsyllus fasciatus) Human flea (Pulex irritans) Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) Bedbug (Cimex lectularius) Cimex lectularius is an obligate parasite...
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