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Neosomes of tungid fleas on wild and domestic animals

Tunga is the most specialized genus among the Siphonaptera because adult females penetrate into the skin of their hosts and, after mating and fertilization, undergo hypertrophy, forming an enlarged structure known as the neosome. In humans and other warm-blooded animals, neosomes cause tungiasis, wh...

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Autores principales: Linardi, Pedro Marcos, de Avelar, Daniel Moreira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172993/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25141814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-014-4081-8