body louse

1. Epidemic typhus is passed from human to human by the body louse.
   流行性斑疹伤寒是由体虱在人与人之间传播的。
2. When the hosts have a close affinity in taxonomy, the louse communities on their body surface would tend to be similar with the same or similar dominant louse species ( as observed in genus Rattus, Niviventer, Apodemus and Eothenomys).
   在动物分类上近缘的小兽，其体表吸虱群落相似，优势虱种相同或相似，此情形尤其表现在鼠属、白腹鼠属、姬鼠属和绒鼠属。

noun

1. a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings

   Synonym:    cootiePediculus corporis