Vectors of Disease

Question 1

Vectors of Disease: Mosquito

Answer 1

• Female Anopheles Mosquito
• Genus: Anopheles
• Disease: Malaria, Yellow Fever

Question 2

Vectors of Disease: Tick

Answer 2

• Genus: Ixodes

- Disease: Lymes Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Tularemia

Question 3

Vectors of Disease: Flea

Answer 3

• Genus: Pulex

- Diseases: Plaque, Typhus, Cat Scratch Fever

Question 4

Vectors of Disease: Lice/Louse

Answer 4

• Genus: Pediculus

- Disease: Lice; head, body, pubic

Question 5

Vectors of Disease: Cyclops (water flea)

Answer 5

• Disease: Guinea Worm
• Arthropod lives in fresh water
• contains larval stage of Dracunculus medinsensis

Question 6

Vectors of Disease: Biting fly: Kissing Bug

Answer 6

• Disease: Chagas disease

- transmits the organism Trypanosoma cruzi

Question 7

Vectors of Disease: Biting fly: Tsetse Fly

Answer 7

• Disease: African Sleeping Sickness

- transmits the organism Trypanosoma brucei

Question 8

Vectors of Disease: Biting fly: Sand Fly

Answer 8

• Disease: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis or Visceral Leishmaniasis
• transmits organism Leishmania donovani