Taber's Medical Dictionary
Anoplura
(an″ŏ-ploor′ă)
[Gr. anoplos, unarmed + Gr. oura, tail]
Blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals. They can cause localised skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne diseases, e.g., trench fever, epidemic typhus, epidemic relapsing fever.
SEE: louse; SEE: pediculosis
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Anoplura." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura.
Anoplura. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura. Accessed September 27, 2020.
Anoplura. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (23rd edition). F.A. Davis Company. Retrieved September 27, 2020, from https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura
Anoplura [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2020 September 27]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura.
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