@article {316,
	title = {Rearing and maintaining a laboratory colony of body lice on rabbits},
	journal = {American Journal of Tropical Medicine},
	volume = {28},
	year = {1948},
	note = {195},
	month = {1948},
	pages = {499 - 504},
	abstract = {Ern{\"a}hrung; Zucht; Wirtsspezifit{\"a}t; Wirtswechsel. Nur 7 von 97 Kaninchen waren als Wirtstiere geeignet. Biology; Entwicklung; G. V.; Nach 10 Generationen Zucht an geeigneten Kaninchen lie{\ss}en sich die L{\"a}use auch unbeschr{\"a}nkt an urspr{\"u}nglich ungeeigneten Kaninchen z{\"u}chten (15 Generationen lang).},
	keywords = {culture, Lagomorpha, Pediculus humanus, Primates, Rabbit, rearing, Troester},
	author = {Culpepper,G. H.}
}
@article {259,
	title = {5 years of experience in keeping Pediculus humanus colonies in the laboratory},
	journal = {Revista de Investigacion en Salud Publica},
	volume = {27},
	year = {1967},
	note = {LR: 20031114; JID: 0056517; ppublish},
	month = {1967},
	pages = {317 - 320},
	address = {MEXICO},
	keywords = {animals, Animals, Laboratory, Lice/growth \& development, methods, Rabbit},
	isbn = {0034-8384},
	author = {Varela,Gerardo}
}
@article {269,
	title = {New method for the destruction of Pediculus humanus. Study on the ingestion of phenylbutazone in humans and rabbits},
	journal = {ud Publica de Mexico},
	volume = {7},
	year = {1965},
	note = {LR: 20041117; JID: 0404371; 50-33-9 (Phenylbutazone); ppublish},
	month = {1965},
	pages = {183 - 187},
	address = {MEXICO},
	keywords = {animals, drug, humans, lice, Rabbit},
	isbn = {0036-3634},
	author = {Varela,Gerardo and Bravo-Becherelle,M. A. and Velasco,R.}
}
@article {156,
	title = {An attempt to infect human body lice, Pediculus humanus var corporis on a mild case of murine typhus},
	journal = {China Medical Journal},
	volume = {97},
	year = {1984},
	note = {LR: 20041117; JID: 7513795; ppublish},
	month = {1984},
	pages = {158 - 164},
	address = {CHINA},
	keywords = {animals, guinea pigs, humans, Insect vectors, Lice/microbiology, Middle Aged, Rabbit, Rickettsia/growth \& development/isolation \& purification, typhus},
	isbn = {0366-6999},
	author = {Li,J. X. and Fu,R. S. and Liu,W. T.}
}
@article {125,
	title = {Controlled study of malathion and d-phenothrin lotions for Pediculus humanus var capitis infested schoolchildren},
	journal = {Lancet},
	volume = {344},
	year = {1994},
	month = {1994},
	pages = {1724 - 1727},
	abstract = {Anecdotal reports have suggested that reduced efficacy of pediculicides against Pediculus humanus capitis could be related to resistance to treatments. Ovicidal and pediculicidal activities of 0.5\% malathion and 0.3\% d-phenothrin lotions were tested in an experimental model of P humanus capitis grown on rabbits to ensure that the two treatments were pharmacologically equipotent. We then did a randomised controlled trial in which the lotions were administered to 193 P humanus capitis-infested schoolchildren (malathion, 95; d-phenothrin, 98). Success rate was defined as the absence of both live lice and viable nits. Before treatment, live lice were collected and subjected to a pediculicidal test. Pharmacological tests showed 100\% killing of the rabbit-grown nits and lice after exposure to both pediculicides. On day 1 of the controlled trial, the success rate was 92\% in the malathion group (95\% CI, 0.86-0.97) and 40\% in the d-phenothrin group (0.30-0.49) (p < 0.0001); on day 7, it was 95\% in the malathion group (0.90-0.99) and 39\% in the d-phenothrin group (0.29-0.48, p < 0.0001). Malathion was also significantly more active in the pediculicidal tests compared to d-phenothrin and control. These results suggest an acquired resistance to d-phenothrin in the schoolchildren tested, since all other conditions of the administration of insecticides were standardised.},
	keywords = {animals, child, Comparative Study, humans, Insecticide Resistance, Lice Infestations/drug therapy, malathion, Pediculus, Pyrethrum, Rabbit, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov{\textquoteright}t, scalp dermatoses},
	url = {http://www.phthiraptera.info/Publications/45219.pdf},
	author = {Chosidow,Olivier and Chastang,C. and Brue,C. and Bouvet,E. and Izri,M. and Monteny,N. and Bastuji-Garin,S. and Rousset,J. J. and Revuz,J.}
}
@article {69,
	title = {An experimental model of human body louse infection with Rickettsia typhi},
	journal = {Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
	volume = {990},
	year = {2003},
	note = {LR: 20041117; JID: 7506858; ppublish},
	month = {2003},
	pages = {617 - 627},
	address = {United States},
	abstract = {Murine (endemic) typhus caused by Rickettsia typhi, one of the most widely distributed arthropod-borne diseases, is transmitted to humans mainly by the oriental rat flea. The human body louse, Pediculus humanus corporis, has been suspected to have a role in the transmission of R. typhi to humans. To evaluate the potential role of Pediculus humanus corporis as a vector of murine typhus, we used R. typhi in an experimental model of human body louse infection previously used with R. prowazekii. A rabbit was made bacteremic by inoculating it with 2 x 10(6) plaque-forming units of R. typhi; it remained bacteremic for at least 59 hours. Two hundred body lice infected by feeding on the bacteremic rabbit were compared to 200 uninfected control lice. Each louse population was fed once a day on the abdomen of a seronegative rabbit. On day 8 post-infection, as a result of disruption of the gut cells and leakage of the blood meal into the hemolymph, four infected lice became bright red and died within four hours. The life span of infected lice was 20 days less than that of the controls. Infected lice did not transmit R. typhi to their progeny (eggs and larvae) as demonstrated by PCR amplification and cell culture. With an immunofluorescence assay, R. typhi was detected in feces from day 7 post-infection, and the organism remained viable in feces for up to 80 days as demonstrated by cell culture. From the 21st day post-infection, the rabbit used to feed the R. typhi-infected lice developed an immunoglobulin response with a titer of 1:50 increasing to 1:200 at the 42nd day post-infection. It showed no clinical signs of infection. The rabbit that was used to feed uninfected lice remained seronegative. Although body lice are not clearly identified vectors of R. typhi, it seems that under certain circumstances they could transmit R. typhi.},
	keywords = {animals, Disease Models, Animal, Feces/microbiology, humans, Lice/microbiology/pathogenicity/physiology, Rabbit, reproduction, Rickettsia typhi/pathogenicity, typhus},
	isbn = {0077-8923},
	author = {Houhamdi,Linda and Fournier,P. E. and Fang,R. and Raoult,Didier}
}
