[The present status of the conquest of tropical Africa by Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758]. / Actualité de la conquête de l'Afrique intertropicale par Pulex irritans Linné, 1758.

ABSTRACT

Owing to human parasites, two fleas, namely Pulex irritans Linné, 1758 and Tunga penetrans (L., 1758) were brought from America to intertropical Africa. The conquest of Africa by Pulex irritans, was really effective since the fifties, evidently by european strains. Some examples selected in occidental and oriental Africa show the reality of this fact. Accordingly, the epidemiological modalities in plague's african foci can be strongly changed.