Table 2. Body of knowledge regarding the transmission of different vector-borne pathogens.

Numbers represent total PubMed hits for combined All Fields searches.

AND	Known since	“ecology”	“reservoir”	“life cycle”
“Plasmodium falciparum”	<1950	321	278	1,303
“Borrelia burgdorferi”	1984	338	402	150
“Rickettsia rickettsii”	<1950	31	9	9
“Rickettsia conorii”	<1950	9	21	8
“Rickettsia typhi”	<1950	16	13	5
“Rickettsia africae”	1996	10	3	1
“Rickettsia prowazekii”	<1950	13	10	4
“Rickettsia felis”	1996	17	21	3
“Orientia tsutsugamushi”*	<1950	30	20	10
”Anaplasma phagocytophilum”	<1950	113	173	41
“Ehrlichia chaffeensis”	1991	13	48	13

*“Orientia tsutsugamushi” OR “Rickettsia tsutsugamushi.”

Search date: 22 October 2020.