Head Lice of Pygmies Reveal the Presence of Relapsing Fever Borreliae in the Republic of Congo

BACKGROUND: Head lice, Pediculus humanus capitis, occur in four divergent mitochondrial clades (A, B, C and D), each having particular geographical distributions. Recent studies suggest that head lice, as is the case of body lice, can act as a vector for louse-borne diseases. Therefore, understandin...

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Autores principales: Amanzougaghene, Nadia, Akiana, Jean, Mongo Ndombe, Géor, Davoust, Bernard, Nsana, Nardiouf Sjelin, Parra, Henri-Joseph, Fenollar, Florence, Raoult, Didier, Mediannikov, Oleg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5135033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27911894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005142

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