Publication Type: | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Authors: | L. A. Durden |
Editor: | G. R. Mullen, Durden L. A. |
Book Title: | Medical and Veterinary Entomology |
Chapter: | 7 |
Edition: | 3rd |
Pagination: | 79 - 106 |
Publisher: | Academic Press |
City: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
ISBN Number: | 3-9780128140444, p-9780128140437 |
Keywords: | Chewing lice, lice, Louse-borne diseases, Medical importance, sucking lice, veterinary importance |
Abstract: | The taxonomy, morphology, life history, and medical and veterinary importance of parasitic sucking lice and chewing lice are discussed. Important lice that parasitize humans, pets, and livestock animals are documented. Louse-borne diseases, including epidemic typhus, trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and swinepox, are detailed. The chapter concludes with an overview of methods used to prevent and control louse infestations and associated louse-borne diseases |
URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128140437000078?via%3Dihub |
DOI: | 10.1016/B978-0-12-814043-7.00007-8 |
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