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Yersinia pestis can infect the Pawlowsky glands of human body lice and be transmitted by louse bite. PLOS Biology . Published online May 21, 2024. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002625.
The study appears in the journal Insect Molecular Biology.. Scientists have long debated whether human head and body lice are the same or different species. The head louse (Pediculus humanus ...