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Vectors

Vector:        Disease:

INSECTS:

Sand fly leishmania, verruga peruana        

Reduvid bug (kissing bug) T. cruzi (Chagas disease)        

Pediculus humanus corporis (body louse)

Mosquito malaria, filariasis (Wucheria bancrofti)        

Fleas        

oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis) bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis), endemic (murine) typhus        

Black fly (Simulium) river blindness (onchocerciasis)        

Tse Tse fly sleeping sickness (african trypanosomiasis)        

ARACHNIDS (ticks and mites):

Dermacantor variabilis

Liponyssoides sanguineus (mouse mite) Rickettsial pox