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Xenopsylla cheopis (oriental rat flea)
Transmits the etiologic agent of Yersinia Pestis, etiologic agent of the plague, the agent of murine typhus & rat tapeworms.
Clinical manifestations: see siphonaptera (flea)
Management: see siphonaptera (flea)
Related
endemic (murine) typhus (typhus fever)
Hymenolepis diminuta (rat tapeworm)
siphonaptera (flea)
Yersinia pestis
General
Xenopsylla
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: arthropod
ORGANISM-CLASS: INSECTA
ORDER: siphonaptera
FAMILY: PULICIDAE
GENUS: Xenopsylla
References
- Clinical Diagnosis & Management by Laboratory Methods,
19th edition, J.B. Henry (ed), W.B. Saunders Co.,
Philadelphia, PA. 1996, pg 1303
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 13th ed.
Isselbacher et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1994, pg 936