@article {40269,
	title = {Characterization of body louse midgut proteins recognized by resistant hosts},
	journal = {Medical and Veterinary Entomology},
	volume = {10},
	year = {1996},
	month = {1996},
	pages = {35 - 38},
	abstract = {<p>The human body louse, Pediculus humanus, showed eighteen midgut proteins ranging between 12 and 117 kDa, when analysed by SDS- PAGE electrophoresis. Seven of them (12 kDa, 17 kDa, 29 kDa, 35 kDa, 40 kDa, 55 kDa and 97 kDa) were major bands based on their intensity of staining. The immunization of rabbits with a midgut extract elicited the production of protective polyclonal antibodies. These antibodies reacted strongly with all major midgut proteins as well as with 63 kDa and 117 kDa proteins when tested by the Western blot technique. The analysis of the proteins revealed that the 12 kDa, 25 kDa, 29 kDa, 35 kDa, 45 kDa, 87 kDa and 97 kDa proteins are glycosylated and none of them contained a lipid moiety. By electroelution, the proteins of 35 kda and 63 kDa were purified. On trypsinization, the proteins of 35 kDa and 63 kDa produced four major fragments (F- 1, F-2, F-3, and F-4) when resolved on a 18\% SDS-PAGE. The F-1 fragment of the 35 kDa protein reacted with the polyclonal antibodies by the immunoblot technique.</p>
},
	keywords = {adult, antigens, arthropod, body, Boophilus, cattle, Control, human, immunization, immunogens, immunological, louse, midgut, pdf, Pediculus humanus, protein, ticks, vaccinated, vaccine},
	url = {http://www.phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/38618.pdf},
	author = {Ochanda,James O. and Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu and Ben-Yakir,David and Okuru,J. K. and Oduol,V. O. and Galun,Rachel}
}
@article {40071,
	title = {Exotic ectoparasites of ostriches recently imported into the United States},
	journal = {Journal of Wildlife Diseases},
	volume = {27},
	year = {1991},
	note = {no lice?},
	month = {1991},
	pages = {180 - 182},
	abstract = {Eleven species of ectoparasitic arthropods were collected and identified from ostriches (Struthio camelus) recently imported into the United States from Africa and Europe. Four of these species are reported from ostriches for the first time. The parasites included adult hippoboscid flies (Struthiobosca struthionis) and 10 species of adult ixodid ticks (Amblyomma gemma, A. lepidum, A. variegatum, Haemaphysalis punctata, Hyalomma albiparmatum, H. luscitanicum, H. marginatum rufipes, H. truncatum, Hyalomma sp., and Rhipicephalus turanicus. As a result of these findings, the U.S. Department of Agriculture prohibited further importation into the United States of ostriches and other flightless birds on an interim basis.},
	keywords = {amblyomma, fly, haemaphysalis, Hippoboscidae, ixodid, louse, ostrich, parasite, rhipicephalus turanicus, spp, struthiobosca, struthionis, Survey, ticks},
	url = {http://www.phthiraptera.info/sites/phthiraptera.info/files/38344.pdf},
	author = {James W. Mertins and Schlater,Jack L.}
}
