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Lec 25 Arthropods Flashcards

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Main Vector of Plasmodium

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ANOPHELES quadrimaculatus

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Anopheles quadrimaculatus

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main vector of plasmodium

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Common House mosquito
Main Vector for Wichereria bancrofti

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Culex quinquefasciatus

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Culex quinquefasciatus

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Common House mosquito
Main vector for wichereria bancrofti

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5
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This arthropod transmits Babesia Microti

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Ixodes scapularis = deer tick

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Ixodes scapularis

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transmits babesia microti

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7
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Arthropod responsible for head lice

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Pediculosis capitis

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8
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Pediculosis capitis is responsible for

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Head Lice

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Crab or Pubic Lice is caused by

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Pthirus pubis

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10
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Pthirrus pubis is responsible for

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Crab or pubic lice

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Vector of Brugia Malayi that causes lymphatic filariasis

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Mansonia uniformis = mosquito

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Mansonia uniformis is the mosquito vector for ______ that causes lymphatic filariasis

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Brugia Malayi

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13
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This arthropod is also known as Chiggers, Harvest Mite, or Scrub Itch Mite

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Trombicula alfreddugesi

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14
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This is the vector of Leishmania donovani

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Phlebotomus papatasi = sand fly

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15
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Phlebotomus papatasi is the vector for

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Leishmania donovani
Painful bites

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16
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Human Bot Fly
causes Furuncular myasis = boil like lesions

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Dermatobia hominis

17
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Dermatobia hominis causes

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Furnuclar myasis = boil like lesions
human bot fly

18
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Black Fly transmits larvae of ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS – onchocerciasis = river blindness

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Simulium damnosum

19
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Simulium damnosum causes

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Onchocerciasis – Onchocerca volvulus
Black Fly

20
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Tsetse Fly vector transmits Trypansoma brucei

Sleeping Sickness

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Glossina palpis

21
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Glossina Palpis causes

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Trypanosoma brucei = sleeping sickness
Tsetse Fly

22
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Kissing/Reduviid bug – vector for trypansoma cruzi that causes chagas disease

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Triatoma infestans

23
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Triatoma infestans causes

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Trypanosoma cruzi that causes chagas disease
Reduviid Bug or Kissing Bug

24
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Infection from bite of mite – burrows through skin (serpinginous cutaneous burrows)
pruritis/dermatitis

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Sarcoptes scabiei

25
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Sand flea that burrows into the skin (feet/toes) sucks blood before producing eggs causes TUNGIASIS

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Tunga penetrans

26
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Mosquito, vector for Denque virus, Yellow Fever virus, Chikungunya and zika virus

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Aedes Aegypti

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