ENTO 606: Disease Vectors of Medical, Veterinary and Agricultural Importance

Arthropod vectors of diseases. Taxonomy, biology, incrimination of vectors, vectot capacity, ecology of vectors. Epidemiology of vector-borne diseases; parasites transmitted by insect vectors; Parasites transmitted by insect vectors, life-cycle and symptomatology of diseases; animal reservoirs. Vector control methods as applied to blackfly, tsetsefly, mosquitoes, ticks and mites. Transmission of plant viruses, phytopathogenic fungi, bacteria and mycoplasma-like organisms by insect and mite vectors. Ecology of the vectors. Characteristics and epidemiology of the plant diseases transmitted by insect vectors.