58 APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY FOR NURSES 



The following is a partial list of insects which carry 

 disease: 



Yellow fever mosquito (Aedes calopus), formerly called 

 Stegomyia calopus. 



Malaria mosquito (Anopheles maculipennis) . 



House fly (Musca domestica) may carry organisms of 

 typhoid fever, cholera, and other diseases. 



Tsetse fly (Glossina palpalis) transmits sleeping-sickness. 



Tick (Dermacentor andersoni) transmits Rocky Mountain 

 spotted fever. 



Tick (Margaropus annnlatus) transmits Texas fever. 



Stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) may transmit infantile 

 paralysis (poliomyelitis) . 



Flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), a carrier of bubonic plague. 



Body louse (Pediculus vestimenti) transmits typhus 

 fever. 



Bedbug (Cimex lectularius) transmits relapsing fever. 



So far as the nurse is concerned, the above facts call 

 for careful attention to flies, mosquitoes, fleas, bedbugs, 

 lice, and other vermin about every case of infectious dis- 

 ease. 



