| insecticide susceptibility of some vector fleas and mosquitoes in burma. | rat fleas and mosquitoes are insect vectors of public health importance in burma. plague is endemic in central burma and ddt has been the principal insecticide used for its control to date. dengue haemorrhagic fever, recently introduced and transmitted by aedes aegypti, has been spreading to major towns since 1971. the rodents, rattus rattus, r. exulans, bandicota bengalensis, mus musculus, as well as shrews were commonly caught during routine trapping in the country. rattus norvegicus, prevalen ... | 1975 | 131975 |
| plant extracts, isolated phytochemicals, and plant-derived agents which are lethal to arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases--a review. | the recent scientific literature on plant-derived agents with potential or effective use in the control of the arthropod vectors of human tropical diseases is reviewed. arthropod-borne tropical diseases include: amebiasis, chagas disease (american trypanosomiasis), cholera, cryptosporidiosis, dengue (hemorrhagic fever), epidemic typhus (brill-zinsser disease), filariasis (elephantiasis), giardia (giardiasis), human african trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), isosporiasis, leishmaniasis, lyme di ... | 2011 | 21432748 |
| murine typhus: clinical and epidemiological aspects. | is an intracellular bacteria who causes murine typhus. his importance is reflected in the high frequency founding specific antibodies against rickettsia typhi in several worldwide seroepidemiological studies, the seroprevalence ranging between 3-36%. natural reservoirs of r. typhi are rats (some species belonging the rattus genus) and fleas (xenopsylla cheopis) are his vector. this infection is associated with overcrowding, pollution and poor hygiene. typically presents fever, headache, rash on ... | 2012 | 24893060 |