ZOO 519 : Medical Entomology

Studying the feeding organs of disease-transmitting insects and other Arthropods (mouth parts, structure and function of digestive system and feeding mechanism). Studying disease-transmitting insects and other Arthropods: Experimental, Transmission, Relationship between the pathogen, vector and host. Response of vertebrate host to insect-transmitted pathogens. Insect-transmitted diseases of wild animals. Studying insect different mechanisms of diseases transmission: Mechanical, Biological, Transovarial, and Propagative Transmission. Studying Myiasis that caused by insect to vertebrate hosts.