AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 

TABULAR REVIEW OF PRINCIPAL INSECT-BORNE DISEASES 
DISEASE PARASITE CARRIER 
ACARINA (mites) 
West African Tick Fever Spirocheta duttoni Ornithodorus moubata 
Rocky Mountain Spotted 
Fever i at Ee i A, Vk as Se ates Sere ee Malena Dermacentor andersont 
and other ticks 
Opilacao (or Chagas Fever) Trypanosoma cruzi O. moubata, also certain 
Hemiptera 
Texas Fever of cattle Babesia bigeminum Boophilus annulatus 
Spirochetosis of fowls Spirocheta gallinarum Argas persicus 

HEMIPTERA (bugs) 
a yplitis Mever s.)) -#i oy ss Le dae 2 tials eee ee ane Pediculus capitis, P. 
vestimentt 
Opilacao (or Chagas Fever) Conorrhinus megistus, 
of Brazil Trypanosoma cruzt Cimex lectularius, C. 
hemipterus, also certain 
ticks 
European Relapsing Fever Spzroch@eta recurrentis P. capitis, P. vestimenti 
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also, perhaps, bedbugs 
North African Relapsing es PS, g 




Fever Spirocheta berber Pediculus vestimenti 
Kala-Azar or Dum-Dum ; 
Fever Leishmania donovant Conorrhinus rubrofascia- 
tus or Cimex hemipterus (?) 
SIPHONAPTERA (fleas) 
Bubonic Plague Bacillus pestis Xenopsylla cheopis and 
Infantile splenic : other fleas 
leishmaniasis Letshimania infantum Pulex trritans and other 
fleas 
DIPTERA (flies) 
Sleeping Sickness Trypanosoma gambiense Glossina palpalis 
Nagana disease of cattle Trypanosoma brucei Glossina morsitans and 
other flies 
Surra of cattle A filterable virus fhlebotomus papatasit 
Vemniparpemiviana. 6) AES cece Sree Phiebotomus verrucarum (?) 
Typhoid, diarrheal disease 
of children, etc. Various bacteria Musca domestica (occa- 
sional accidental carrier) 
DIPTERA (mosquitoes) 
Malaria—tertian Plasmodium vivax | : ‘ 
quartan P. malarig Anopheles maculipennis 
zestivo-autumnal P. falciparum \ and other Anopheles sp. 
Yellow Fever A filterable virus Aédes calopus 
Filariasis Filaria bancrofti Culex fatigans, Anopheles 
nigerrimus and others 
Dengue A filterable virus 
Culex fatigans 
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