body louse in English
noun
1
a louse of a variety that infests the human body and is particularly prevalent where hygiene is poor. It can transmit several diseases through its bite, including typhus.
There he again found efficient and cost-effective methods for controlling the human body louse , the insect that carried typhus fever.
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1. Epidemic typhus is passed from human to human by the body louse.
2. If there is a serious increase in body louse infestation, quick action is required by properly trained personnel.
3. 25 If there is a serious increase in body louse infestation, quick action is required by properly trained personnel.
4. The body louse, usually found on inner clothing seams, is the only proven vector of louse-borne (epidemic) typhus and epidemic relapsing fever.
5. In 200 Mark Stoneking, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, estimated from DNA differences that the body louse evolved from the head louse about 000 years ago.