Entomology

Fleas, Lice, Mites, Mosquitoes,

Looking for lice

A daily business … Courtesy CDC Pediculus spp.

Rickettsia prowazekii: epidemic typhus Bartonella quintana: trench fever Borrelia recurrentis: epidemic relapsing fever

Sam R. Telford III. 2007. In ASM Manual of C.M. Evidence for -transmitted diseases in soldiers of Napoleon’s Grand Army in Vilnius (Lithuania)

PCR of dental pulp from the remains and lice in earth from the grave revealed DNA of Bartonella quintana and Rickettsia prowazekii in nearly one third of the buried soldiers.

Raoult D. et al. 2006. JID. 193:112-120. Rickettsia prowazekii

• The Polish Partisan Alec Ossowski was a prisoner in Auschwitz. •… • There was a Hungarian Jew who was ill with typhoid, so he scooped the lice from under his arm and put them inside the coat of the nasty SS-doctor. The doctor got the disease and died.

De Standaard. 27 januari 2005. Pediculus sp.

Nit of attached to hair shaft. Pediculus humanus var. corporis

Human . Nymphal-staged lice and adults.

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Head of the head louse. Phthirus pubis

Crab louse from pubic hair. Jigger (chigger)

Typical lesion on a toe caused by the female flea .

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Small flea, present in tropical areas. Tunga penetrans

Large egg seen in a skin lesion. Xenopsylla cheopis (right) The oriental rat flea is the primary vector of the agent of plague, Yersinia pestis.

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The adult itch mite is very small. Norwegian

Norwegian scabies is an extremely infectious condition, since tens of thousands of mites are present in the hyperkeratotic skin and squames of the patients. Early diagnosis of Norwegian scabies is thus crucial for therapeutic and infection control purposes.

Wong S. et al. 2005. JCM 43:2542-2544. folliculorum Found in the follicles of simple hairs.

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This myasis is acquired in a curious manner. The eggs are transported by various bloodsucking (such as mosquitoes).

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The bot is widely distributed in Central and South America, and in parts of Mexico. The occurs in diverse .

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Second stage larva with a curious appearance known as ver macaque (macaw worm, tropical ). Dermatobia hominis

Third stage larva called torcel or berne. Dermatobia hominis

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Produces a furuncular type of myasis in Tropical Africa. Children are commonly affected. The lesions occur on areas normally covered with clothing.

Courtesy Goddard J Tsetse fly: Glossina spp.

• Male and female are haematophagous.

• Feed on man and animals (pig, antelope...) Courtesy Tulane Glossina spp. Tse-tse Ixodes

Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme disease Ehrlichia chaffeensis: human monocytic ehrlichiosis Anaplasma phagocytophilum: anaplasmosis Rickettsia conorii: boutonneuse fever Babesia spp.: babesiosis

Sam R. Telford III. 2007. In ASM Manual of C.M. Amblyomma americanum

The American lone star .

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Thicks are obligate, blood-sucking ectoparasites of many animals and man. This species is the vector of Lyme-disease in Europe.

1 cm Ixodes ricinus

Female thick with four pairs of legs. Triatoma infestans

South American “kissing bug” vector for Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease.

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Female sandfly, a vector of the parasite responsible for Leishmaniasis.

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• Tiny (3mm long). • Live in caves, cavities, tree holes … • Female: blood feeder. • Active at night (little or no wind). • Phlebotomus spp.

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Occasional presence of Phlebotomus sp. in the Belgian Ardennes. Mosquitoes:Mosquitoes: basicbasic biologybiology

• Larvae and pupae always found in water. • Adult mosquitoes of both sexes feed on nectar. • Females of most species need a blood meal for egg development. • In temperate climate: diapause (adults in dormant state) or produce dormant eggs. Mosquitoes: basic biology II

• Three major breeding groups:

– Permanent water breeders: Anopheles and many Culex in swamps, ponds, lakes, and ditches. – Floodwater breeders: salt marsh, inland flood water, and rice field mosquitoes. – Artificial container/tree hole breeders: Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Courtesy US Navy Medical Department Courtesy US Navy Medical Department Mosquitoes as vectors

• Aedes: filaria, viruses (e.g. Aedes aegypti for dengue and yellow fever). • Anopheles: malaria, filaria (Wuchereria bancrofti) , viruses. • Culex: filaria, viruses (e.g. Culex pipiens for SLE). Aedes aegypti

• Worldwide within the 20°C isotherms. • Vector of yellow fever and dengue. • Urban . • Daytime biting mosquito.

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Courtesy Goddard J. 2003. Aedes aegypti

RecordedRecorded inin Funchal,Funchal, • Worldwide within the MadeiraMadeira inin 20042004--2005.2005. 20°C isotherms. Eurosurveillance, 20.11.2007 Eurosurveillance, 20.11.2007 • Vector of yellow fever and dengue. • Urban mosquito. • Daytime biting mosquito.

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• Asian Tiger Mosquito. • Agressive, daytime biting mosquito. • Associated with used automobile tires. • Vector of yellow fever, dengue and Lacrosse encephalitis virus.

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• Asian Tiger Mosquito. • Agressive, daytime biting mosquito. • Associated with used automobile tires.

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• Asian Tiger Mosquito. • Agressive, daytime biting mosquito. • Chikungunya outbreak in Réunion, a French “overseas département”. • Arboviral disease. • Fever and arthralgias. Courtesy Goddard J.

Eurosurveillance. 2006. Volume 11. Issue 1, at http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ Aedes albopictus

• Chikungunya fever in the province of Ravenna, Italy: A. albopictus is the most likely vector … • A. albopictus in … Belgium, the Netherlands, …

Eurosurveillance. 2007. Volume 12. Issue 9, at http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ • A. albopictus in NL: via “lucky bamboo” from SE-China.

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2007. 151:1333-1338. Courtesy Goddard J. Aedes albopictus

Chikungunya virus in Aedes albopictus, Italy. 2008. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14:852-854.

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Anopheles labranchiae atroparvus • Ziet gij muggen lang van poot? Aarzelt niet, maar slaat ze dood. • Main malaria vector in the Low Countries. • Lives in pig stables and attics. • The larvae are found in brackish water along the coast from the southern Baltic to Spain.

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AnophelesAnopheles freebornifreeborni

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• Most important vector in Africa. • < 1000 m • 2 (7) km • 0 – 4 h maximal activity. • Endophilic species.

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• 1930: Brazil. • 1937-1938: large fatal epidemics associated with A. gambiae in Brazil. • 1939-1941: eradicated from Brazil. • 1943-1945: eradicated from Egypt.

The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 2002. 2:618-627. UK NEQAS Parasitology on the web

Approximately 60 different species of Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria. Malaria transmission

Mosquito to man

Blood transfusion

Mother to child Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922)

• Physician of the French Army.

• 1880: Constantine, Algeria, The malaria parasite: Laveriana, Plasmodium.

• Nobel Prize in 1907. Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) 20 August 1897: mosquito day • Surgeon-Major in the British Indian Medical Service wrote to his wife: “I know that this little thing a million men will save”. • Studied bird malaria. • Nobel Prize in 1902. Battista Grassi

• 1899 • Only female mosquitoes are able to transmit malaria.

• Blood is necessary for oogenesis. Courtesy CDC Courtesy Plasmodium falciparum limited to (sub-) tropical areas (summer isotherm of 20°C, altitude < 2000 m). Sporogony in the mosquito

• Plasmodium falciparum – 8 days at 30°C – between 20 (18) and 33°C

• Plasmodium vivax – development occurs at 16°C

M. Wéry, 1995. Developmental period in mosquito • Plasmodium falciparum: 22 days at 20°C, 10 days at 27°C (minimal temperature (18) 2O°C) • Plasmodium malariae: 30-35 days at 20°C, 25 days at 24°C (minimal temperature 16°C)

Beaver et al. 1984. Developmental period in mosquito • Plasmodium ovale: 16 days at 25°C, 14 days at 27°C (minimal temperature (18) 2O°C) • Plasmodium vivax: 30+ days at 16°C, 16 days at 20°C, 10 days at 30°C (minimal temperature 16°C)

Beaver et al. 1984. Malaria: Vector Control

• Source reduction (larval control) – Historically most effective campaign in Brazil and Egypt (1930s and 1940s). – Bacillus thurigiensis var. israelensis (Bti toxins). – Mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis): larger bodies of water.

CDC, www.cdc.gov/malaria/ New strategy against Aedes aegypti in Vietnam Kay B., Nam V. 2005. Lancet: 365:613-617. • Major sources of A. aegypti are large water storage containers. • 1998-2003: Elimination from 32 of 37 communes with Mesocyclops spp. (cyclopoid copepods) (309730 people). • No dengue cases since 2002. New strategy against Aedes aegypti in Vietnam

Kay B., Nam V. 2005. Lancet: 365:613-617. • Mesocyclops spp. (cyclopoid copepods) • WHO: only in countries free of Guinea worm (Mesocyclops spp. are intermediate host) • Gnathostoma and Diphyllobothrium ? Malaria: Vector Control

• Indoor residual spraying – DDT, dieldrin – more expensive insecticides – failure of eradication (1955-1969) – environmental concerns • Insecticide-treated bed nets – pyrethroid insecticides – nets retreated at 6-12 months

CDC, www.cdc.gov/malaria/ DDT

• Dichloro-diphenyl- trichloroethane. • 1874: German chemist: Othmer Zeidler. • 1939: Paul Hermann Müller (1899-1965) in Switzerland (J.R. Geigy A.G., Basle). • WWII: louse-borne typhus, malaria. • 1948: Nobel Prize Medicine. Courtesy Gentilini M. & Duflo B. The disaster of the ban of DDT

The Lancet. 2000. 356: 265 and 1189.

2001: indoor residual spraying with DDT resumed in S. Africa and malaria cases fell. The Lancet. 2007. 369:1922. Eradication of malaria

1934: Hans Andersag at Bayer discovers chloroquine 1939: Paul Müller at Geigy discovers DDT 1951: Sardinia malaria free 1955: WHA (WHAssembly): goal of global eradication 1955-1969: WHO uses DDT and chloroquine 50’s: DDT-resistance 1962-1970: chloroquine-R 1955-1965: expenditure of $ 1.4 billion 1969: WHO back to malaria control 1975: Europe free of malaria for first time in history

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