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Disease Vectors
Detailed knowledge of the biology of disease vectors (often referred to under the term 'Medical Entomology') is a critically important component in the effective management of many vector-borne diseases.
Vector species may differ in their life cycles; breeding sites; feeding behaviours or host preferences (to name a few). For example, two mosquito species may be important vectors of disease in the same region but may have different feeding and resting behaviours, this would need to be taken into account in the choice of intervention technique.
Within the diverse range of insect vector species it is arguably the mosquitoes, Phlebotomine sandflies, triatomid (reduviid) bugs and tsetse flies which are the most significant vector groups, but the importance of lice, ticks, fleas and other biting flies should not be ignored.
Vector species may differ in their life cycles; breeding sites; feeding behaviours or host preferences (to name a few). For example, two mosquito species may be important vectors of disease in the same region but may have different feeding and resting behaviours, this would need to be taken into account in the choice of intervention technique.
Within the diverse range of insect vector species it is arguably the mosquitoes, Phlebotomine sandflies, triatomid (reduviid) bugs and tsetse flies which are the most significant vector groups, but the importance of lice, ticks, fleas and other biting flies should not be ignored.
| The Bayer portfolio is particularly suited for the control of the four major groups of vectors but it also encompasses solutions for the intermediate snail hosts of schistosomiasis. |
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