Maintenance of the crab louse, Pthirus pubis, in the laboratory and behavioural studies using volunteers.
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2987 10 27 Epidemiology of Louse Infestations
In reviewing the current extent and epidemiology of louse infestations in human populations and between host and another, it is accepted that is infested by two species of lice/ of which consists of two subspecies (Busvine, 1976). The two species Pthirus pubis, the crab louse, andiPediculus humanus, the human louse, the latter with its two subspecies, P. h. capitis, the head louse, and P. h. hu...
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Bilateral animals are featured by an extremely compact mitochondrial (mt) genome with 37 genes on a single circular chromosome. The human body louse, Pediculus humanus, however, has its mt genes on 20 minichromosomes. We sequenced the mt genomes of two other human lice: the head louse, P. capitis, and the pubic louse, Pthirus pubis. Comparison among the three human lice revealed the presence of...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Community medicine
دوره 5 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1983