Biodiversity in Medical Entomology and its significance for Public Health

Authors: Alves JRC*

DOI: 10.23880/izab-16000527

Volume 6, Issue 6

Abstract

In December 1984, I started working at the Entomology Laboratory of the Superintendence of Public Health Campaigns - SUCAM, in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. The primary objective of this federal institution is the control of vectors, prevention, and treatment of rural endemic diseases. Consequently, we attended classes and courses on the taxonomy of disease vectors, particularly those belonging to the Diptera order, which encompassed the primary disease vectors of that moment, namely anopheline mosquitoes, culicids, and phlebotomine sandflies, responsible for malaria, yellow fever, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and leishmaniases, respectively.

Keywords: Anopheline; Biodiversity; Medical Entomology; Phlebotomine

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