Khudobin V V
Voen Med Zh. 1995 Oct(10):52-8, 80.
Epidemiological significance of clothes and head louse is determined first of all by the type of "parasite-host" connection. Clothes louse has an immediate contact with man only during bloodsucking, it dwells in clothes, consumes big portions of blood and has great productivity. Temperature factor is very important for Pediculus corporis. If the man's temperature is growing the louse will abandon him. The comparison of various literature data and proper author's information has shown that Pediculus capitis didn't play a significant role in epidemic typhoid malady taking into account the modern level of the affection of population with head lice. The author describes the peculiarities of morphology, biology, population dynamics, parasitology and epidemiology of P. capitis and P. corporis.
衣虱和头虱的流行病学意义首先取决于“寄生虫-宿主”的联系类型。衣虱仅在吸血时与人直接接触，它栖息在衣服上，吸食大量血液且繁殖力很强。温度因素对人体虱非常重要。如果人的体温升高，虱子就会离开他。综合各种文献资料及作者本人的信息进行比较表明，考虑到现代人群头虱感染的水平，头虱在流行性伤寒病中并未发挥重要作用。作者描述了头虱和人体虱在形态学、生物学、种群动态、寄生虫学及流行病学方面的特点。
