Vectors

Aedes aegypti

Aedes aegypti (Muhammad Mahdi Karim, Wikipedia)

Aedes mosquito

Vector for -

  • Dengue

  • Yellow fever

  • Dirofilaria

  • West Nile virus

  • Easter equine encephalitis

  • Chikungunya

  • Zika

  • LaCrosse virus

Anopheles (CDC PHIL, James Gathany #7861

Anopheles mosquito

Vector for -

  • Malaria

  • Filaria

Culex mosquito

vector for -

  • West Nile

  • Japanese encephalitis

  • Filaria

  • St Loise encephalitis


https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/disease-vectors/facts/mosquito-factsheets

Ray Wilson, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - (2009) PLoS Pathogens Issue Image - Vol. 5(8) August 2009. PLoS Pathog 5(8): ev05.i08. doi:10.1371/image.ppat.v05.i08

Lutzomyia (New world sand fly)

vector for -

  • Leishmania

  • kala-azar

  • Verruga peruana

  • Carrion’s disease

  • Arbovirus

Image credit: World Health Organization (PHIL #3812), 1975.

Phlebotomous (old world Sand Fly)

Vector for -

  • Leishmania

  • Bartonella