chigoe

For these reasons, the chigoe flea should be removed as soon as possible.

A better approach is to use repellents that specifically target the chigoe flea.

At 1 mm long, the chigoe flea is the smallest known flea.

For the most part, the chigoe flea lives 2-5 cm below sand, an observation which helps explains its overall distribution.

Chig is not the species' name for itself, but rather a human-coined nickname (referencing the chigoe flea).

Bunke also soon found herself battling a high fever, a leg injury, and the painful effects of the Chigoe flea parasite.

Though vaccines would be useful, due to the ectoparasitic nature of chigoe flea, they are neither a feasible nor an effective tool against tungiasis.

Due to its burrowing activity, the chigoe flea has developed a well-developed lacinia and epipharynx that is used to penetrate the skin.

Though the chigoe flea resembles most others in morphology, the flea has a hypertrophic region between tergites 2 and 3.

Staphylococcus aureus and Wolbachia endobacteria can be transmitted by the chigoe flea, as well as nearly 150 other different pathogens.

Hectopsyllidae is a small family of fleas, containing only the chigoe fleas and the sticktight fleas.

Tungiasis is strictly caused by chigoe fleas (The term transmission does not apply because T. penetrans is itself responsible for the disease.)

Through ship routes and further expeditions, the chigoe flea was spread to the rest of the world, particularly to the rest of Latin America and Africa.

In Spanish, the chigoe is commonly known as pique due to the itching and burning sensation it produces; in Colombia, it is known as nigua.

The term "chigger" is often confused with the term "jigger", the chigoe flea (Tunga penetrans) - the name chigger originated as a corruption of chigoe.

Trombicula is a genus of harvest mites (also known as red bugs, scrub-itch mites, berry bugs or, in their larval stage, as chiggers or chigoe) in the Trombiculidae family.

Since the chigoe flea technically has no reservoir species and the female will cause tungiasis to any mammalian organism it can penetrate, this means the flea will have a relatively large amount of hosts and victims.

The gum of the mammee apple, a fruit that also goes by the name Saint Domingo Apricot, has also been used to kill the chigoe flea, though this has not been reported in the main T. penetrans literature.

His entire body was covered by millions of insect bites, his feet were bloody, gnawed by the chigoe fleas and some of the horrible little beasts which, when one goes through water, incrust themselves under the skin by opening sores that look like oysters out of their shell, hideous and terribly painful.