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	Guide to the removal of jigger fleas.(Brief Article) Newspaper article from: Pulse; 5/28/2005; 634 words ; ...sand fleas. The fertilised female of the Tunga penetrans, the chigoe or jigger flea, is capable of burrowing beneath the skin of...treatment simple. The fertilised female sand flea/jigger flea/chigoe/chique penetrates skin crevices in the soles of the feet...
	Furtive Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures Who Live on You. Magazine article from: BioScience; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...stop to borrow a bit of food when they need it." Residents are those minute fauna (head lice, pubic lice, tropical chigoe, itch mites, and follicle mites) that live in or on humans continuously. Subsequent pages cover non-arthropod, microscopic...
	On yer jigger, Fat Owl of the Remove! Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/14/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...club, usually a 4 iron; 3. A 11/2 oz whisky measure; 4. A kind of sieve used for sifting ore; 5. Another word for a chigoe, the insect that burrows in your flesh; 6. A runabout truck on a a railway line (but only in New Zealand); 7. A device...
	Just a bit of fun.(Features) Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 2/21/2009; 268 words ; CHIGOE Which one of our four definitions is correct? 1 Long hair in a roll or knot at the back of the head 2 Tall, elegant chest of drawers 3 Tropical flea 4 Almost transparent plain-weave fabric of silk Solution 3 Tropical flea
	Tungiasis: a case report.(CASE REPORT) Magazine article from: Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Tungiasis is a cutaneous infestation caused by Tunga penetrans, a human flea. Other commonly used names include chigoe flea, sand flea, chigo, jigger, chique, nigua, pico, le bicho de pr. It is an endemic ectoparasitosis in Latin America...
	BUG OF THE MONTH.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Geographical; 1/1/2000; 452 words ; ...not be able to fly, but the tiniest of the thousand species of fleas still gets around. The jigger flea (also called the chigoe, chigger, or sand flea) is capable of jumping up to 600 times an hour when it's looking for food. Visitors to tropical...
	THE FUN IN LINDSAY'S POEMS IS THEY'RE FUN.(Everyday Magazine)(Profile\Sarah Lindsay) Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 4/5/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...whose research paralleled Charles Darwin's. After years of terrible travails ("His own feet rotted around the burrows of chigoe fleas, at night he made blood offerings to vampire bats and mosquitoes") Wallace got himself and his specimens loaded onto...
	A tourist with tungiasis Magazine article from: Canadian Medical Association. Journal; 8/14/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...performed (Figure 3). Tungiasis is caused by an infestation of gravid female T. penetrans. T. penetransare also referred to as chigoe, jigger and sand flea. Common hosts include humans, dogs, cats and pigs. This ectoparasite is usually acquired by walking...

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	chigoe Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition chigoe or jigger, small parasitic flea of tropical America and...hatch in the soil, undergoing complete metamorphosis. The chigoe is sometimes confused with the chigger . The chigoe is classified in the phylum Arthropoda , class Insecta...
	jigger Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition jigger see chigoe .
	chigger Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...also jigger ) • n. 1. a tiny mite (genus Trombicula , family Trombiculidae) whose parasitic larvae live on or under the skin of warm-blooded animals, where they cause irritation and dermatitis. 2. another term for chigoe .
	Piso, Willem Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Piso recommended the native root ipecacuanha to cure this disease, advice followed for centuries. His description of the chigoe (Pulex penetrans or Tunga penetrans) the troubles it causes, and the treatment of these troubles has never been surpassed...
	flea Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...species transmits tularemia from rabbits. Fleas also transmit several species of tapeworms that sometimes infest humans. The chigoe is a flea. Water fleas and beach fleas are crustaceans and not closely related to the insects. Fleas are classified in the...