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sucking louse
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sucking louse

Any of more than 400 species (suborder Anoplura, order Phthiraptera) of small, wingless, flat ectoparasitic insects found worldwide. They have piercing and sucking mouthparts for extracting their food of mammals' blood and tissue fluids. The nymphs mature after several molts. Species are host-specific: Pediculus infests humans (see human louse), whereas other sucking lice (genera Haematopinus and Linognathus) attack domestic animals, such as hogs, cattle, horses, and dogs.
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Humans are the reservoir of the bacterium (12), and the human body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, is its usual vector (1).
Bartonella quintana characteristics and clinical management by Raoult, Didier / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Because head lice - in Latin, Pediculus humanus capitis - are considered a nuisance rather than a health problem, no public agency keeps records on the number of children infested.
LICE INFEST FIRST-GRADERS; 6 IN ONE CLASS PLAGUED BY PARASITIC ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The [alpha]-proteobacterium Bartonella quintana is a fastidious, gram-negative organism; humans are the only known reservoir, and the human body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, is the only known vector (1).
Bartonella quintana in domestic cat by Drancourt, Michel / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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