| Table 4-22 Select Vectors (Figures 4.42E–F and 4.43B) |
| | Vector | | Disease |
| | Flies | | 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 |
| | Mosquitoes | | Anopheles spp. → malaria
Aedes spp. → yellow fever, dengue fever |
| | Fleas | | 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) |
| | Reduviid bugs
Assassin bugs
Kissing bugs | | Order: Hemiptera; Family: Reduviidae
Triatoma spp . (assassin bug or kissing bug) → Chagas disease |
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