1. Arthropod Disease

2. OBJECTIVES Understand the role of arthropods in human disease
Recognize arthropods implicated in important human diseases
Describe important vector-borne diseases
I won’t be able to cover all of the arthropod-related diseases in the next hour, so I will just give a highlight of some of the most interesting and clinically relevany

3. Types of negative interactions with arthropods
Envenomation
Myiasis
Bites and Piercing
Urtication
Allergic reactions
Delusory Parasitosis and Entomophobia

4. arachnida Arachnids Spiders Banana spiders
Black widow spiders and their relatives
Tarantulas

7. Scorpions
Dangerous scorpions
Effects of scorpion venom
Treatment of envenomation by scorpions

9. Mites
Chiggers or harvest mites
Scabies mites
Other medically important mites that bite people
Dust mites
Flour and grain mites

11. Ticks
Soft
hard

13. Insects
Human lice
Pubic louse
Head louse
Body louse

15. Cockroaches
True bugs
Assassin and kissing bugs
Bed bugs

18. Ants, wasps, and bees
Honey bees
Bumble and carpenter bees
Other bees
Wasps and hornets
ants

20. Beetles
Blister beetles
Rover beetles
Dermestids

21. Flies Flies that cause myiasis Human bot fly Tumbu and Lund’s fly
Congo floor maggot
Sheep bot fly
Sheep maggot

22. Old World screw worm
New World screw worm
Wohlfahrtia magnifica
Other flies that cause myiasis
Treatment of myiasi

23. Biting flies Mosquitoes Biting midges Sand flies Black flies
Tsetse flies
Stable and dog flies
Horse and deer flies
Filth flies

26. Fleas Human flea Oriental rat flea Northern rat flea Western hen flea
Tunga flea or chigoe

28. Other Arthropods
Centipedes
Millipedes

29. Other Invertebrates Porifera Coelenterates Jellyfish
Sea stars and brittle stars
Leeches
Squids, octopuses and cuttlefishes

31. Agents Transmitted By Vectors
Viruses
Rickettsia
Bacteria
Protozoa
helminths

32. Virusus Yellow Fever Dengue Fever Rift Valley Fever Encephilidides:
Japanese Encephalitis
halitis

33. West Nile Encephalitis
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Western Equine Encephalitis
La Crosse Encephalitis
St. Louis Encep

34. bacteria Rickettsia akari Rickettsia mooseri Rickettsia prowazokii
Rickettsia rickettsia
Rickettsia typhi

35. bacteria Rickettsia tsutsugamuchi Ehrlichia sp Yersinia pestis
Borrelia burgdorferi
Borrelia recurrentis

36. Protozoa Babesia microti Babesia divergens Plasmodium falciparum
Plasmodium malariae
Plasmodium ovale
Plasmodium vivax
Leishmania braziliensis

37. Protozoa Leishmania chagasi Leishmania donovani Leishmania infantum
Leishmania major
Leishmania mexicana (many subspecies)

38. Protozoa Leishmania tropica Trypanosoma cruzi
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

39. Helmeanths Wuchereria bancrofti Brugia malayi Mansonella ozzardi
Mansonella perstans
Mansonella streptocerca
Onchocerca volvulus
Loa loa