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The body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus, sometimes called Pediculus humanus corporis) is a louse that infests humans. The condition of being infested with head lice, body lice, or pubic lice is known as pediculosis. Body lice are vectors for the transmission of the human diseases Epidemic typhus, Trench fever and Relapsing fever The body louse genome sequence analysis was published in 2010.

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1. (c) Gilles San Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanmartin/4900866654/
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediculidae

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