Flashcards: Insect-borne diseases

Pogosta disease is a viral disease, established to be identical with other diseases, Karelian fever and Ockelbo disease.

A mosquito net offers protection against mosquitos, flies, and other insects, and thus against the diseases they may carry.

Plague is an infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Oroya fever or Carrion's disease is an infectious disease produced by Bartonella bacilliformis infection.

African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease of humans and other animals.

Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a human disease caused by parasitic worms known as filarial worms.

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, black fever, and Dumdum fever, is the most severe form of leishmaniasis.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (also known as oriental sore, tropical sore, chiclero ulcer, chiclero's ulcer or Aleppo boil) is the most common form of leishmaniasis affecting humans.

Acanthocheilonemiasis is a rare tropical infectious disease caused by a parasite known as Acanthocheilonema perstans.

Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness and Robles disease, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus.

Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a viral disease that can cause mild to severe symptoms.

Tularemia is a serious infectious disease caused by the intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis.

Filariasis (or philariasis) is a parasitic disease caused by an infection with roundworms of the Filarioidea type.

Pneumonic plague, a severe type of lung infection, is one of three main forms of plague, all of which are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Dirofilariasis is an infection by parasites in the Dirofilaria genus.

Loa loa filariasis is a skin and eye disease caused by the nematode worm Loa loa.

Tick-borne diseases, which afflict humans and other animals, are caused by infectious agents transmitted by tick bites.

Epidemic typhus (also called "camp fever", "jail fever", "hospital fever", "ship fever", "famine fever", "putrid fever", "petechial fever", "Epidemic louse-borne typhus," and "louse-borne typhus") is a form of typhus so named because the disease often causes epidemics following wars and natural disasters.

Arbovirus is a term used to refer to a group of viruses that are transmitted by arthropod vectors.

Erythema chronicum migrans (New Latin, literally, "chronic migrating redness") refers to the rash often (though not always) seen in the early stage of Lyme disease.

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease recently discovered in northeast and central China.

West Nile fever is a mosquito-borne infection by the West Nile virus.