The neglected saliva: Medically important toxins in the saliva of human lice

Parasitology

Volumn 116, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages

  Jones, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lice; Parasite; Pediculus; Phthirus; Saliva; Salivary gland; Wasp

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT PROTEIN; HIRUDIN; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; TICK ANTICOAGULANT PEPTIDE;

ANTICOAGULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERYTHEMA; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SUCKING; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; ANOPLURA; ANTICOAGULANTS; DISEASE VECTORS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; LICE; RELAPSING FEVER; SALIVARY GLANDS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; TYPHUS, EPIDEMIC LOUSE-BORNE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; PEDICULUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PHTHIRUS; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); VESPIDAE;

EID: 0031808905     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000084961     Document Type: Article

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