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Head lice are parasitic insects, also known as Pediculus humanus capitis, which live in the hair and scalp of humans7,8.
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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In his great encyclopedia of animals, Professor Grzimek writes about the danger of the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus), which can transmit the fatal disease typhus (Typhus exanthematicus).
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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At this altitude there is no fear of bugs and fleas — the only dread is Signor “Pediculus.”
The Land of Midian 2003
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* Cause: The causative agent, Rickettsia prowazekii, is transmitted by the human body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, which is infected while feeding on the blood of patients with acute typhus fever.
Chapter 2 1997
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It is, in fact, neither more nor less than the clothes louse, the _Pediculus vestimenti_.
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And our friends in gray had left some things in these old camps which ere long we all fervently wished they had taken with them, namely, a most plentiful quantity of the insect known as "Pediculus vestimenti," which forthwith assailed us as voraciously as if they had been on quarter rations, or less, ever since the beginning of the war.
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Leander Stillwell 1888
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Scaraboeus or Beetle with the Egyptian Pediculus or
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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