Fleas of the genus Ctenocephalides Stiles et Collins, 1930: medical and veterinary importance.

The genus Ctenocephalides (Insecta-Siphonaptera) has a significant medical and veterinary importance and its synanthropic taxa are responsible for num erous nuisances. These nuisances may be due to the bite or to the transmiss ion of pathogenic agents (helminths, protozoan, bacteria) to the men or dom estic carnivores. Lastly, these fleas may proliferate in houses, on domesti c carnivores but also on large animals causing sometimes anemia and death. These proliferations have no serious consequences in industrialized countri es but cause economical losses in developing ones.