Aedes aegypti, a daytime biter that prefers human blood, is the principal vector of yellow fever as well as dengue.
Thus, various observations strongly suggested P. orientalis to be the principal vector in the study areas, where farm lands and periphery of villages were identified as the most risky habitats, whereas the indoors were the least ones.
Anopheles gambiae is the principal vector of malaria, a disease that afflicts more than 500 million people and causes more than 1 million deaths each year.
Aedes aegypti is considered to be the principal vector, and Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) has also recently emerged as an important vector.
Ae. aegypti is reported to be the principal vector of dengue fever in tropical countries, a disease considered a serious public health problem world over, especially in areas where the environmental conditions for the development of Aedes mosquitoes abound.
The mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is the principal vector of the Dengue and yellow fever viruses.
Humans are the major reservoir for B. quintana and the human body louse is the principal vector [4], [5].
Prior to the 2006 2007 outbreaks, Ae. aegypti was the principal vector responsible for most urban epidemics of chikungunya [36].
Lutzomyia longipalpis is the principal vector of Leishmania infantum chagasi which causes visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil [1], [2].
To the best of our knowledge, this study provides the first evidence that beer consumption increases human attractiveness to An. gambiae, which is the principal vector of malaria in Africa.
