Biomedical Entomology: Insects and Diseases

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What is the study of insects, insect-borne diseases, and other associated problems that affect humans and public health?

Medical Entomology

What is the study of insects and insect-related problems that affect domestic animals, including livestock and companion animals?

Veterinary Entomology

What does the field of Medical-Veterinary Entomology combine?

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

What other arthropods, besides insects, are traditionally included in the fields of Medical and Veterinary Entomology?

Arachnids (i.e. mites, ticks, spiders, and scorpions) Signup and view all the answers

Name one disease that influenced the history of humans due to insect-borne transmission.

Yellow fever Signup and view all the answers

What is the 50-year period during which many major discoveries relevant to medical and veterinary entomology occurred?

The Golden Age of Medical Veterinary Entomology (1877-1927) Signup and view all the answers

Who discovered the transmission of Wucheriria bancrofti by Culex pipiens fatigans?

Patrick Manson Signup and view all the answers

What is a growing health concern recognized by public health officials?

Emerging and resurging arthropod-borne diseases Signup and view all the answers

Name one livestock scourge that has influenced animal production and husbandry practice.

Bovine babesiosis Signup and view all the answers

What are Hemiptorums?

True bugs Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated the role of mosquitoes as vectors of avian malarial parasites?

Sir Ronald Ross Signup and view all the answers

What is the principal vector of the yellow fever virus?

Aedes aegypti Signup and view all the answers

Who transmitted, during blood feeding, the trypanosomes that cause African trypanosomiasis?

tsetse fly Glossina palpalis Signup and view all the answers

What is the causative agent of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?

Ricketssia rickettsii Signup and view all the answers

Who presented persuasive evidence that Aedes aegypti was the vector for Yellow Fever?

Carlos Finlay Signup and view all the answers

What is the vector of Borrelia recurrentis, the spirochete that causes louseborne (epidemic) relapsing fever?

human body lice Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated the transmission of the agent that causes American trypanosomiasis by conenose bug (Panstroglys megistus)?

Carlos Chagas Signup and view all the answers

Who demonstrated that fleas are vectors of the bacterium that causes plague?

Paul Louis Simond Signup and view all the answers

Who led the US Yellow Fever Commission at Havana Cuba?

Walter Reed Signup and view all the answers

Who implicated the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus as a vector for Babesia bigemina?

Theobald Smith & Fredrick Kilbourne Signup and view all the answers