Literature

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Anonymous1997A large outbreak of epidemic louse-borne typhus in Burundi
J. L. Boese, Wisseman, Jr., C. L., Walsch, W. T., Fiset, P.1973Antibody and antibiotic action on Rickettsia prowazeki in body lice across the host-vector interface, with observations on strain virulence and retrieval mechanisms
P. Doury1996Henry Foley and the discovery in 1908 of the role played by the louse in the transmission of relapsing fever
H. Feldmeier2021Typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto 1940-1942: how an epidemic increased exponentially, was abated and eventually disappeared
H. S. Fuller1953Studies of human body lice Pediculus humanus corporis. II. Quantitative comparisons of the susceptibility of human body lice and cotton rats to experimental infection with epidemic typhus rickettsiae
L. Houhamdi, Fournier, P. - E., Fang, R., Raoult, D.2003An experimental model of human body louse infection with Rickettsia typhi
J. X. Li, Fu, R. S., Liu, W. T.1984An attempt to infect human body lice, Pediculus humanus var corporis on a mild case of murine typhus
J. B. Ndihokubwayo, Raoult D.1999Epidemic typhus in Africa
P. N. Newton, Fournier, P. - E., Tappe, D., Richards, A. L.2022Renewed Risk for Epidemic Typhus Related to War and Massive Population Displacement, Ukraine
J. Powers, Badri T.2019Pediculosis corporis
D. Raoult, Roux V.1999The body louse as a vector of reemerging human diseases
D. Robinson, Leo, N. P., Prociv, P., Barker, S. C.2003Potential role of head lice, Pediculus humanus capitis, as vectors of Rickettsia prowazekii
C. Beatrice Vicentini, Manfredini, S., Contini, C.2018Ancient treatment for lice: a source of suggestions for carriers of other infectious diseases?
P. Weindling2000The First World War and Combating Lice
R. N. Wiedenmann, J. Fisher R.2021Lice in War and Peace
T. Zhang2022[A biography of infectious diseases: Hans Zinsser and his Rats, Lice and History]
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