New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
...crobe is genetically similar to one spread by body lice in the trenches during World War I. That bacterium, called Bartonella quintana, caused a disease known as trench fever, and debilitated tens of thousands of soldiers with severe leg and back pain and recurrent fevers. The new species, recently na...Human pubic lice acquired from gorillas gives evolutionary clues
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Humans acquired pubic lice from gorillas several million years ago, but this ...ntimate kind, humans most likely got the gorilla's lice from sleeping in their nests or eating the giant apes, said David Reed, assistant curator of mammals...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
...d Sea, we have hair and hair combs with desiccated lice in them because of the dryness." "The evidence shows conclusively that the area was a toilet," Zias noted. "The samples contained eggs from intestinal worms that are specific to humans. These things had to come from human feces. The presence of eggs...... and conducted a study showing it eradicates head lice infestations on children by exterminating the eggs or "nits" and killing enough lice to prevent them from reproducing. The study published in the November 2006 issue of the j...'LouseBuster' instrument shown to kill head lice
...- and conducted a study showing it eradicates head lice infestations on children by exterminating the eggs, or "nits," and killing enough lice to prevent them from reproducing. "The LouseBuster is particularly effective because it kills lous...Salmon farms kill wild fish, study shows
New research confirms that sea lice from fish farms kill wild salmon. Up to 95 per cen...hat migrate past fish farms die as a result of sea lice infestation from the farms. The results of the research have been published in the Proceedings of th......ta doctoral student Marty Krkosek, who led the sea lice research, are co-presenting their latest sea lice and salmon findings as part of a symposium called The Rising Tide of Ocean Plagues, February 17 at t...How Rickettsial pathogens break into cells
...sial bacteria are transmitted by fleas, ticks, and lice to humans and other mammals, where they can cause dangerous and sometimes fatal infections. There are two types of Rickettsial pathogens--the spotted fever group, which includes the Rickettsia conorii bacteria studied by Cossart and her colleagues, a...... Ecology, is the first in which the genes of whale lice were used to track the genetic evolution of whales...le Conservation Institute in Lincoln, Mass. "Whale lice have been doing it for millions of years, and can tell us things about the whales we can't learn any...DDT-resistant insects have additional genetic advantage that helps resistance spread
...ness against the mosquito that spreads malaria and lice that carry typhus. DDT-resistant mosquitoes were first detected in India in 1959, and they have increased so rapidly that when a local spray program is begun now, most mosquitoes become resistant in a matter of months rather than years. Worryingly,...Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon
... science) shows that the transfer of parasitic sea lice from salmon farms to wild salmon populations is mu...olate and measure the impact of a fish farm on sea lice outbreaks in wild salmon. The study combined new field techniques that allowed comprehensive, indivi......human data by analyzing the next best thing - head lice - and provide intriguing evidence that H. sapiens...istent with the more recent divergence time of the lice (at 1.18 mya). Reed and colleagues therefore propose a scenario in which H. sapiens and H. erectu...A University of Utah study showing how lice evolved with the people they infested reveals that...y at the University of Utah. "Kids today have head lice that evolved on two species of cavemen. One species led to us. The other species went extinct." ...