Table 1. Vectors, human pathogens and diseases transmitted.

List of the invertebrate vectors of human pathogens with a genome project, and their most important human pathogens and diseases transmitted.

Vector	Common name	Important pathogens	Human disease transmitted
Anopheles gambiae	African Malaria Mosquito	Plasmodium falciparum	Malaria
Aedes aegypti	Yellow Fever Mosquito	Yellow fever virus, Dengue virus, Chikungunya virus	Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya
Culex pipiens quiquefasciatus	Southern House Mosquito	West Nile Virus, Wuchereria bancrofti	West Nile Fever, Encephalitis, Lymphatic Filariasis
Pediculus humanus	Body Louse	Rickettsia prowasekii	Typhus
Ixodes scapularis	Black-legged Tick	Borrelia burgdorferi, Rickettsiae, Babesia microsi	Lyme disease, Granulocytic ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis
Rhodnius prolixus	Kissing Bug	Trypanosoma cruzi	Chagas disease
Glossina morsitans	Tsetse fly	Trypanosomas	Sleeping sickness [Nagana in livestock]
Phlebotomus papatasi	Sand fly – Old World	Leishmania	Leishmaniasis
Lutzomyia longipalpis	Sand fly – New World	Leishmania	Leishmaniasis