Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A. & Wrenn, William J., 2004, Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A., Zootaxa 647, pp. 1-20 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158298

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52622931-7DA7-4EF3-9AB9-47D8E47C9B4C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269654

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2738789-771C-EC1F-6D3C-FA16FD4D52E1

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Plazi

scientific name

Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus
status

 

Pediculus humanus humanus Linnaeus

Abbeville Co., unknown location, 5 March 1975; Greenville Co., Ninety Six, 1 January 1975; Pickens Co., Clemson, 24 November 1975.

The human body louse is a vector of at least three pathogens of humans, including those that cause epidemic louse­borne typhus ( Rickettsia prowazekii ), trench fever ( Bartonella quintana (Schmincke)) , and louse­borne relapsing fever ( Borrelia recurrentis (Lebert)) . Both louse borne typhus and trench fever are endemic in the U.S.A. as either zoonotic or recrudescent agents or emerging infectious diseases (Jackson & Spach 1996; Azad & Beard 1998; Durden 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Phthiraptera

Family

Pediculidae

Genus

Pediculus

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