Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A.
Author
Reeves, Will K.
Author
Durden, Lance A.
Author
Wrenn, William J.
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Zootaxa
2004
647
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158298
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Pediculus humanus humanus
Linnaeus
Abbeville Co., unknown location,
5 March 1975
; Greenville Co., Ninety Six,
1 January 1975
; Pickens Co., Clemson,
24 November 1975
.
The human body louse is a vector of at least three pathogens of humans, including those that cause epidemic louseborne typhus (
Rickettsia prowazekii
), trench fever (
Bartonella quintana
(Schmincke))
, and louseborne relapsing fever (
Borrelia recurrentis
(Lebert))
. Both louse borne typhus and trench fever are endemic in the
U.S.A.
as either zoonotic or recrudescent agents or emerging infectious diseases (Jackson & Spach 1996; Azad & Beard 1998; Durden 2002).