Research Center for Parasites & Vectors, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Research Center for Parasites & Vectors, College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Parasitology, Xiangya School of Basic Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Travel Med Infect Dis. 2023 Sep-Oct;55:102630. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102630. Epub 2023 Aug 9.
Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for louse-borne infectious diseases, like trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic fever, which are caused by Bartonella quintana, Borrelia recurrentis, and Rickettsia prowazekii, respectively. Those diseases are currently re-emerging in the regions of poor hygiene, social poverty, or wars with life-threatening consequences. These louse-borne diseases have also caused outbreaks among populations in jails and refugee camps. In addition, antibodies and DNAs to those pathogens have been steadily detected in homeless populations. Importantly, more bacterial pathogens have been detected in human lice, and some have been transmitted by human lice in laboratories. Here, we provide a comprehensive review and update on louse-borne infectious diseases/bacterial pathogens.
人体虱子一直是一个主要的公共卫生关注点，因为它们具有虱子传播的传染病的媒介能力，如战壕热、虱子传播的回归热和流行性斑疹伤寒，分别由巴尔通体 quintana、回归热螺旋体和普氏立克次体引起。这些疾病目前在卫生条件差、社会贫困或战争地区重新出现，这些疾病具有危及生命的后果。这些虱子传播的疾病也在监狱和难民营的人群中爆发。此外，在无家可归者群体中也不断检测到针对这些病原体的抗体和 DNA。重要的是，在人体虱子中检测到了更多的细菌病原体，并且有些在实验室中已经通过人体虱子传播。在这里，我们提供了虱子传播的传染病/细菌病原体的全面综述和更新。
