human flea

A human flea being whirled around inside the complex machine of the city.

You like hat designer or human flea.

Among people, plague can spread via human fleas, a different variety, or directly on exhaled droplets.

To Narg, the assault was scarcely worth noticing, the feeble attempt of a human flea to do him harm.

An ice-locked planet, inhabited by a few million human fleas, unknown and unconsidered by the rest of the galaxy.

Take the human flea, or Pulex irritans.

The site provided the earliest known record of the human flea Pulex irritans in Europe.

Human fleas found on dogs and cats may also have played a role in the spread, Dr. Dennis said, although no one is certain to what degree.

The human flea, Pulex irritans, is a cosmopolitan flea species that has, in spite of the common name, a wide host spectrum.

Human flea (Pulex irritans)

A coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a human flea (Pulex irritans)

One is the human flea (P. irritans), and the other five are confined to the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.

There are several types of fleas including the dog flea, cat flea, human flea, northern rat flea, and the oriental rat flea.

This group includes Black Condor, El Diablo, Garryn Bek, Human Flea, Strata, Velvet Tiger and Wotan.

Fleas such as the human flea, Pulex irritans and the Oriental rat flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, transmit bubonic plague, murine typhus and tapeworms.

In 1890 he, with Salvatore Calandruccio, described Dipetalonema reconditum, a non-pathogenic filarial worm of dogs, and showed that the parasite completed its development in human fleas, Pulex irritans.

It usually lives in the fleas of animals, Xenopsylla cheopsis or Cortophylus fasciatus, but in exceptional circumstances, it can live in the human flea Pulex irritans, and can even 'hibernate' for up to 6 months in favourable conditions like dung-piles or cargo bales.