01823nas a2200217 4500008004100000245005300041210005300094260001600147300002000163490000600183520119100189653001501380653001301395653000901408653001501417653001501432100002101447700001901468700002101487856009701508 2018 eng d00aInsects and the Transmission of Bacterial Agents0 aInsects and the Transmission of Bacterial Agents cMay-10-2018 aMTBP- 0017-20160 v63 a
Arthropods are small invertebrate animals, among which some species are hematophagous. It is during their blood meal that they can transmit pathogenic microorganisms that they may be harboring to the vertebrate host that they parasitize, which in turn will potentially develop a vector-borne disease. The transmission may occur directly through their bite, but also through contaminated feces. Zoonotic diseases, diseases that can naturally be transmitted between humans and animals, are a considerable part of emerging diseases worldwide, and a major part of them are vector-borne. Research and public attention has long been focused on malaria and mosquito-borne arboviruses, and bacterial vector-borne diseases remains today a neglected field of medical entomology. Despite the emphasis on Lyme disease in recent decades, and despite the major outbreaks caused by bacteria in the last few centuries, this field has in fact been poorly explored and is therefore relatively poorly known, other than the most famous examples such as the plague and epidemic typhus outbreaks. Here we propose to review the state of knowledge of bacterial agents transmitted by arthropod vectors.
10aarthropods10abacteria10alice10amosquitoes10aRickettsia1 aLaroche, Maureen1 aRaoult, Didier1 aParola, Phillipe uhttp://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/microbiolspec/10.1128/microbiolspec.MTBP-0017-2016