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Body lice of homeless people reveal the presence of several emerging bacterial pathogens in northern Algeria

BACKGROUND: Human lice, Pediculus humanus, are obligate blood-sucking parasites. Body lice, Pediculus h. humanus, occur in two divergent mitochondrial clades (A and D) each exhibiting a particular geographic distribution. Currently, the body louse is recognized as the only vector for louse-borne dis...

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Autores principales: Louni, Meriem, Mana, Nassima, Bitam, Idir, Dahmani, Mustapha, Parola, Philippe, Fenollar, Florence, Raoult, Didier, Mediannikov, Oleg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5922582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29664950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006397