This document discusses different types of blood-sucking lice that affect humans, including their morphology, life cycles, and public health importance. It covers three main types: body louse, head louse, and pubic louse. Key points include their worldwide distribution, feeding behaviors, egg-laying habits, and roles in transmitting diseases like epidemic typhus. Control methods include insecticidal treatments, combing, boiling clothes/water, and chemical disinfectants. The document also briefly overview Cyclops, a freshwater copepod genus that can act as an intermediate host for diseases like guinea-worm.
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Oriental rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) are bloodsucking parasites of warm blooded animals (mainly rodents).These act as vector for may disease causing organisms like Yersinia pestis, which cause plague and murine typhus.
Arthropods are metamerically-segmented
• The segments of arthropods are associated in groups, the anterior segments form the head, the middle ones -the thorax and the posterior ones- the abdomen
•The hard outer covering of arthropod is made of chitin, it forms the Exoskeleton which covers the external surface of the body
•A complete digestive system with a mouth and an anus.
HEAD Lice (Lice)
What is Lice?
The head louse is an obligate ectoparasite of humans that causes head lice infestation. Head lice are wingless insects spending their entire life on the human scalp and feeding exclusively on human blood.
Scientific name: Pediculus humanus capitis
Length: 0.25 – 0.3 cm (Adult)
Structure and Food
Head lice have no wings, so they cannot fly. They have six legs with claws at the ends—that is how they attach themselves to hair.
Lice feed on blood—they use their mouth parts to bite into the skin and secrete a substance that acts to block clotting. They feed about four to five times every day.
Where Do They Come From?
Head lice infestations can happen to anyone, but they are a particular concern for school-age children. It is important to emphasize that poor hygiene, skipped baths or showers, or any other hygiene issue is not the cause of head lice. Children who live in crowded conditions may have more of a problem with head lice, but that is only because they are living close to one another and may sleep in the same bed. The only way head lice spread from one person to another is by direct head-to-head contact (as when kids hug or put their heads together to look at the same book) or by the sharing of hats, caps, hair ties, scarves, or any personal item such as combs or brushes.
Where They live?
Head lice can be found anywhere on the scalp, but are commonly found on hairs at the back of the neck and around the ears.
What Are the Symptoms of Head Lice?
Symptoms of head lice include:
extreme scalp itchiness
feeling like something is crawling on your scalp
sores and scabs on your scalp from scratching
Who Is at Risk for Head Lice?
Preschool and elementary school students have the highest risk of getting head lice. They tend to play closely together and share items that touch their heads. There is also an increased risk of head lice for family members of school-aged children. People who work in a day care center, preschool, or elementary school share this risk.
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Novartis is a leading healthcare company which is situated in Switzerland and uses digital technologies and innovative science to come up with transformative ways of treatment in areas of great medicinal needs. This article explains what Novartis strategies and what they should employ so that they can rise from a billion dollar company to a trillion dollar company like the Google Alphabet Inc.
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Medicine Medicine use
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Learning objectives:
1. Define an electrocardiogram (ECG) and electrocardiography
2. Describe how dipoles generated by the heart produce the waveforms of the ECG
3. Describe the components of a normal electrocardiogram of a typical bipolar lead (limb II)
4. Differentiate between intervals and segments
5. Enlist some common indications for obtaining an ECG
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1. Chapter 11, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 9, Human Physiology - From Cells to Systems, Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
3. Chapter 29, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
4. Electrocardiogram, StatPearls - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK549803/
5. ECG in Medical Practice by ABM Abdullah, 4th edition
6. Chapter 3, Cardiology Explained, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2214/
7. ECG Basics, http://www.nataliescasebook.com/tag/e-c-g-basics
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1. Medical Entomology
Louse & Cyclops
Dr Nishant Kumar
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Medicine
Madhubani Medical College , Madhubani
, Bihar
2. Introduction
Three types of blood sucking lice occurs in
humans
A. Body Louse ( Pediculus humanus)
B. Head Louse (Pediculus capitis)
C. Pubic or crab louse (Pthirus pubis)
All three species of lice have a more or less
world wide distribution but they are often more
common in template areas.
3. Body Louse (Pediculus
humanus)
A body louse is an ectoparasite of humans .
Away from human , unfed lice will die within 2-4 days
In its host it will live for about 30 days
They quickly abandon a dead person to seek new host
.
They also leave a person with high body temperature
People living in conditions of overcrowding , and in
situation where they rarely change clothes due to cold
weather are susceptible .
A person can harbour 400-500 lice , but less than 100
are found mostly.
4. Body Louse (Pediculus
humanus)
External Morphology
Adults are small , pale beige or greyish wingless
insects , with a soft leathery integument and are
flattened dorsoventrally
Male are 2-3 mm and female are 3-4 mm.
The head has a pair of small black eyes and a
pair of short five segmented antennae.
The three thoracic segments are fused together
and legs are stout and less well developed
5.
6. The Body Louse (Pediculus
humanus)
Mouth parts of the louse differ from most blood
sucking insects in that they don’t form a
projecting proboscis but consist of a sucking
snout -like projection called the haustellum
which is armed on inner surface with minute
teeth that grip the skin during feeding.
Needle like stylets are thrust into the skin and
saliva injected into the wound to prevent blood
from clotting . Blood sucked up passes into the
stomach for digestion.
7. Life Cycle
Both sexes take blood meals and feeding occurs at any
time during the day or night .
Both adult and mature stages live permanently on
humans , clinging mainly to fibres of their clothing and
usually only on body hairs during feeding .
Female lice glue about 6-10 eggs per day very firmly on
the clothes especially to undergarments of the host.
The eggs are commonly called nits is oval , white ,1mm
long and has a distinct operculum (cap) containing
numerous perforations which give the egg the
appearance of pepper pots.
8. Life Cycle
Female lice live for 2-4 weeks and may lay upto 150-300
eggs.
The egg stage last for 5- 11 days except on discarded
clothes it may not hatch for 2-3 weeks or in cool
condition it may not
Eggs cannot survive longer than 4 weeks there is little
danger of acquiring body lice from clothes not worn for
over a month.
Louse hatchling are called nymph and resemble small
adult.
It takes blood meal and passes through three nymphal
instars and after 7- 14 days becomes adult male/female.
9. Head Louse (Pediculus
Capitis)
Morphologically similar to body louse only difference is it is
found on head
Life Cycle
The life cycle are similar excepts that (nits) are not laid
on clothes but are centred to the hair of the head
especially to the base and normally hatch after 6-7 days.
Eggs in long hair are near the or touching scalp.
Most individuals have 10- 20 head lice, but in sever
infection multiple stages may become matted with hair
and exudates from pustules from bite of the lice with
super impose bacterial and fungal infection.
11. The Pubic Louse (Pthirus
pubis)
The pubic louse is smaller ( 1.3-2mm) than
pediculus species.
They are less active and infestation is through
sexual intercourse and French called then
‘papillons d’amour’ ( The Butterly of Love’).
Other methods of transmission is though young
children getting infected from infected parents ,
infested discarded clothing , or even lavatory
seats
Adults survive two days or less away from host
12.
13. Public Health Importance
The presence of body , head or pubic lice in a
person is called pediculosis
The skin of people who habitually harbour large
number of body lice may become pigmented and
tough and the condition is known as vagabond’s
disease , hobo disease , or morbus errorum .
Because lice feed several times their saliva has
toxic effect and may cause weariness , irritability
and pessimistic mood .Some people may
develop dermatitis , and have asthmatic
bronchitis .
15. Control and
Prevention
Body lice - Clothes subjected to 70 C for one hour
kill the lice
Insecticidal dust - 5% carbaryl, 1% propoxur, 1%
Malathion, or 0.5% permethrin
Head Louse - Louse combs, malathion and
permethrin .4% dimeticone coats and kills the lice
Pubic lice - Aqueous not alcohol based insecticidal
solution
Oral Ivermectin can cure all kind of lice but under
study.
16. Cyclops
• Cyclops is one of the most common genera of
freshwater copepods, comprising over 400
species.
• The name Cyclops comes from the Cyclops of
Greek mythology which shares the quality of
having a single large eye, which may be either
red or black in Cyclops.
17. Morphology
• Cyclops individuals may range from ½–5 mm long
and are clearly divided into two sections. The broadly
oval front section comprises the head and the first five
thoracic segments. The hind part is considerably
slimmer and is made up of the sixth thoracic segment
and the four legless pleonic segments. Two caudal
appendages project from the rear.
18.
19. Public Health Importance
Cyclops is intermediate host of dracunculiasis
(guinea-worm disease) and fish tapeworm
(Diphyllobothrium latum) infection
20. Control
Physical Method - Straining water though fine
cloth . Boiling the water above 70 C.
Chemical - Chlorination
Biological - Gambusia Fish