Simple Summary Members of Siphonaptera are commonly known as fleas. With more than
2500 species described worldwide, they constitute one of the most important parasites in our …

Simple Summary Fleas are blood-sucking insects that are not only a nuisance but can also
act as vectors for various diseases in animals and humans, including dangerous ailments …

Fleas in the genus Ctenocephalides serve as biological vectors or intermediate hosts of
microorganisms such as bacteria, rickettsia, protozoa and helminths. Ctenocephalides felis …

In the present work, a comparative molecular study of Ctenocephalides felis and
Ctenocephalides canis isolated from dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) from different …

Abstract Background The Silk Road connected the East and West for over 1500 years.
Countries in Central Asia are valuable in addressing the hypothesis that parasites on …

The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis, is an obligate haematophagous ectoparasite of wildlife
and domestic cats and dogs worldwide. Since cat fleas can affect the health of humans and …

Fleas are important vectors of diseases such as murine typhus, tularaemia, hymenolepiasis
and plague. The presence of active foci and history of human‐and flea‐transmitted plague in …

Background Adult fleas are haematophagous ectoparasites of warm-blooded vertebrates,
particularly mammals. Among them, the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) and the human flea …

The cat flea, Ctenocephalides felis (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae)(Bouché), is the most common
flea species found on cats and dogs worldwide. We investigated the genetic identity of the …

Ctenophthalmus is considered the largest genus within the Order Siphonaptera. From a
morphological point of view, only males of this genus can be identified at species and …