Who Bites Me? A Tentative Discriminative Key to Diagnose Hematophagous Ectoparasites Biting Using Clinical Manifestations.
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SUBMITTER: Akhoundi M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7277957 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
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Who Bites Me? A Tentative Discriminative Key to Diagnose Hematophagous Ectoparasites Biting Using Clinical Manifestations.
Akhoundi Mohammad M Sereno Denis D Marteau Anthony A Bruel Christiane C Izri Arezki A
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 20200515 5
Arthropod blood feeders are vectors of several human pathogenic agents, including viruses (e.g., yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue fever), parasites (e.g., malaria, leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis), or bacteria (e.g., plague). Besides their role as a vector of pathogens, their biting activities cause a nuisance to humans. Herein, we document clinical symptoms associated with the biting of ten clusters of hematophagous arthropods, including mosquitoes, biting midges and sandflies, lice, ticks ...[more]
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