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Thawatchai Ketboonlue replied to the topic TMEN 513-9 Mosquitoes II: factors influence disease transmission in the forum TMEN 513 Medical Entomology (2022) 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The transmission patterns is a pattern of vector transmitted the pathogen to another vector for spread the disease to another host. This mechanism can divide into 3 ways. First is Vertical transmission that the mosquitoes transmit the pathogen to their offspring via egg, it call transovum (virus on egg surface) and transovarial (virus in embryos).…[Read more]
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Thawatchai Ketboonlue replied to the topic TMEN 513-22 Vector and pathogen relationship in the forum TMEN 513 Medical Entomology (2022) 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Normally the main vector of malaria is Anopheles spp. and Aedes aegypti is a vector of Dengue fever virus, so both mosquitoes species allow the pathogen living inside their bodies or call susceptible vector. The susceptible vector is a one type of vector and pathogen relationship, it means vector gives some benefits to pathogen and the pathogen…[Read more]
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Thawatchai Ketboonlue replied to the topic TMEN513 topics: Sand flies, Black flies and Biting midges in the forum TMEN 513 Medical Entomology (2022) 2 months ago
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name has meaning in two wings or they have only single pair of wings to fly and the hindwings having evolved know as halteres (small size). They have three bodies regions including head, thorax and abdomen along with three pairs of legs. In suborders Nematocera, it have special characteristics as…[Read more]
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Thawatchai Ketboonlue replied to the topic vector pathogen transmission in the forum TMID 537 Tropical Pathogens and Vectors 6 months, 3 weeks ago
2.1 How the mosquito can transmit the pathogen?
The mosquitoes can transmit the pathogen to human or another mosquitoes in 3 ways. First is vertical transmissions. It mean pathogen from mother passed to their offspring via transovum and transovarial.Second is horizontal transmission. It occurs when female mosquitoes take a blood meal from viraemic…[Read more]
