Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice

Yuan-Ping Deng; Yi-Tian Fu; Chaoqun Yao; Renfu Shao; Xue-Ling Zhang; De-Yong Duan; Guo-Hua Liu

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102630

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Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice

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Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice

Yuan-Ping Deng, Yi-Tian Fu, Chaoqun Yao, Renfu Shao, Xue-Ling Zhang, De-Yong Duan and Guo-Hua Liu

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol.55, pp.1-14

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102630

PMID: 37567429

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Abstract

human lice

lice-borne diseases

lice-borne pathogen

Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for louse-borne infectious diseases, trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic fever, which are caused by Bartonella quintana, Borrelia recurrentis, and Rickettsia prowazekii, respectively. Those diseases are currently re-emerging in the regions of poor hygiene, social poverty, or wars with life-threatening consequences. These louse-borne diseases have also caused outbreaks among populations in jails and refugee camps. In addition, antibodies to those pathogens have been steadily detected in homeless populations. Importantly, more bacterial pathogens have been detected in human lice, and some have been transmitted by human lice in the laboratory. Here, we provide a comprehensive review and update on louse-borne infectious diseases/bacterial pathogens.

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Title: Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice
Authors: Yuan-Ping Deng (Author) - Hunan Agricultural University
Yi-Tian Fu (Author) - Hunan Agricultural University
Chaoqun Yao (Corresponding Author) - Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine
Renfu Shao (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Bioinnovation
Xue-Ling Zhang (Author) - Hunan Agricultural University
De-Yong Duan (Author) - Hunan Agricultural University
Guo-Hua Liu (Corresponding Author) - Hunan Agricultural University
Publication details: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol.55, pp.1-14
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102630
ISSN: 1873-0442
PMID: 37567429
Grant note: This study was supported in part, by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 32172884).
Organisation Unit: School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Centre for Bioinnovation
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99743798502621
Output Type: Journal article

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