Body lice originate from head lice
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 15:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Body lice, which cause highly lethal epidemics (trench fever, typhus and relapsing fever Borrelia), originate from head lice. This has recently been shown by a team from the Emerging Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Unit (CNRS/IRD/Université de la Méditerranée, France), in collaboration with researchers from the Universities of Florida and Illinois. This work is published in the journal PloS Neglected Tropical Diseases dated 24 march 2010.