The Louse Fly
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The Common Swift Louse Fly, Crataerina pallida: An Ideal Species for Studying Host-Parasite Interactions
Little is known of the life-history of many parasitic species. This hinders a full understanding of host-parasitic interactions. The common swift louse fly, Crataerina pallida Latreille (Diptera: Hippoboscidae), an obligate haematophagous parasite of the Common Swift, Apus apus Linnaeus 1758, is one such species. No detrimental effect of its parasitism upon the host has been found. This may be ...
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West Nile virus (WNV) was detected by Taqman reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in 4 of 85 (4.7%) blood-engorged (n = 2) and unengorged (n = 2) Icosta americana (Leach) hippoboscid flies that were collected from wild raptors submitted to a wildlife rehabilitation center in Mercer County, NJ, in 2003. This report represents an additional detection of WNV in a nonculicine arthropod i...
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Lipoptena paradoxa Newstead, 1907 is re-described using scanning electron microscopy and its puparium is described for the first time. The distribution of the fly is restricted to the eastern half of South Africa, generally at altitudes below 600 m. Its preferred hosts are all browsing antelope namely, bushbuck, nyalas, kudus and common duikers. The largest numbers of flies were present on kudu...
متن کاملTreatment Resistance in Louse Control
While there problems facing the physician in treating individual patient for lice/ such choice of pediculicide, from the public health view greatest is lice control in entire populations. This paper deals mainly with problems encountered in delousing campaigns. These may be associated with the organization and implementation of delousing under difficult conditions the problems of louse resistan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Blue Jay
سال: 1953
ISSN: 2562-5667,0006-5099
DOI: 10.29173/bluejay1513