Background: Fleas are ectoparasitic insects with holometabolous development. It has a
hematophagous habit with mouthparts adapted to sting and suck its hosts. There are about …

Vector-borne diseases account for nearly 20% of all globally recognised infectious diseases.
Within the spectrum of flea-borne pathogens, Bartonella and Rickettsia bacteria are …

Climate change is causing many vectors of infectious diseases to expand their geographic
distribution as well as the pathogens they transmit are also conditioned by temperature for …

Rickettsioses, often underreported, pose public health challenges. Rickettsia asembonensis
is a potential emerging pathogen that was previously detected in humans, animals, and a …

To understand the ecoepidemiology of fleas and their interactions with domestic and wild
animals, it is necessary to decode the cycles of flea abundance in relation to host species …

Fleas are an important member of the North African entomofauna. An understanding of the
risks of flea-borne diseases to public and veterinary health can be gained with surveys of …

The degree of host specificity of fleas varies from highly specific (monoxenous) to
opportunistic (polyxenous). Specific parasite-host associations can be observed among …

Vector-borne illnesses account for nearly 20% of all globally recognised infectious diseases.
Within the spectrum of pathogens transmitted by fleas, Bartonella and Rickettsia bacteria are …