Sentence examples for flea species from inspiring English sources

The relatively long life cycle of small mammal specialist tick and flea species present under the prevailing environmental conditions may have left the parasites unable to keep up with the rate of reproduction and dispersal of the host.

Ectoparasites known to infest polecats include flea species such as Ctenocephalides felis, Archaeospylla erinacei, Nosopsyllus fasciatus and Paraceras melis.

Flea species known to infest weasels include Ctenophthalmus bisoctodentatus and Palaeopsylla m. minor, which they get from moles, P. s. soricis, which they get from shrews, Nosopsyllus fasciatus, which they get from rodents and Dasypsyllus gallinulae which they get from birds.

δ13C isotopic signatures confirmed feathers as the main food resource for the three lice species and blood for the flea species.

Several studies have detected R. felis DNA in a diverse range of flea species of which Ctenocephalides felis, the cat flea, is considered the primary vector [3].

However, post-hoc Bonferroni tests indicated significant differences only among some lice and the flea species (pairwise comparisons: Δ15N Ha-Δ15N Xg: D = 1.43, P = 0.006; Δ13C Ae-Δ13C Xg: D = −0.57, P = 0.068).

On the contrary, lice appeared relatively low carbon enriched (0.45 0.75 ‰) compared to the flea species, which showed the greatest carbon discrimination factor (Δ13Cblood-Xg: 1.02±0.51) (Table 1).

Given the prominent role of flea species in transmission of Herpetosoma trypanosomes of other British wild fauna, these observations present P. melis as a compelling candidate vector for T. pestanai.

However, R. felis has been reported in other flea species (4, 6 – 8 ), and flea-borne spotted fever rickettsiosis is now considered an emerging human infectious disease.

The degree of association between fleas and hosts varies among different host/flea species [ 25].

†Flea species positive for gltA.