| Table 4-22 Select Vectors (Figures 4.42E–F and 4.43B) |
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Vector |
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Disease |
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Flies |
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Simulium (black fly) → onchocerciasis
Chrysops (deer fly, mango fly) → loiasis, tularemia
Tabanus (horse fly)
Phlebotomus spp. (sandfly) → leishmaniasis
Lutzomyia spp. (sandfly) → leishmaniasis
Glossina spp. (tsetse fly) → African trypanosomiasis |
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Mosquitoes |
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Anopheles spp. → malaria
Aedes spp. → yellow fever, dengue fever |
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Fleas |
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Ctenocephalides felix (cat flea) → endemic or murine typhus, cat-scratch disease
Xenopsylla cheopis (rat flea) → plague, endemic typhus
Pulex irritans (human flea)
Ctenocephalides canis (dog flea) |
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Reduviid bugs
Assassin bugs
Kissing bugs |
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Order: Hemiptera; Family: Reduviidae
Triatoma spp . (assassin bug or kissing bug) → Chagas disease |
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