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| Oriental rat flea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Siphonaptera |
| Family: | Pulicidae |
| Genus: | Xenopsylla |
| Species: | X. cheopis
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| Binomial name | |
| Xenopsylla cheopis (Rothschild, 1903)[1]
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The Oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), also known as the tropical rat flea or the rat flea, is a parasite of rodents, primarily of the genus Rattus, and is a primary vector for bubonic plague and murine typhus. This occurs when a flea that has fed on an infected rodent bites a human, although this flea can live on any warm blooded mammal.[2][3]
- ^ N. C. Rothschild (1903). "New species of Siphonaptera from Egypt and the Soudan". Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 39: 83–87. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.17671.
- ^ Boyer, Sebastien; Gillespie, Thomas R.; Miarinjara, Adélaïde (1 July 2022). "Xenopsylla cheopis (rat flea)". Trends in Parasitology. 38 (7): 607–608. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2022.03.006. ISSN 1471-4922. PMID 35527197. S2CID 248570009.
- ^ Feldman, Sanford H.; Easton, David N. (1 January 2006). "Chapter 17 – Occupational Health and Safety". The Laboratory Rat (Second ed.). Academic Press. pp. 565–586. ISBN 978-0-12-074903-4. Retrieved 27 December 2022.