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Filaria Monitoring Visualization System: A New Dimension for Integrated Control of Lymphatic Filariasis

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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries had been exciting times for investigation of transmissible diseases. Pathogens were cultivated from diseased humans and animals, vaccines were developed and immunity studies carried out for use in diagnosis and prevention of disease. Koch’s postulates were promulgated and used to prove that various microorganisms were the cause of diseases. Quarantine was practiced to prevent the spread of diseases that were transmitted directly from one person to another. Antibiotics and other chemotherapeutic agents have been improved to suppress many serious diseases. Despite these successes, failures lurked in the background. The dark shadow was cast on many vector-borne diseases, which had complex epidemiology and reservoirs in various animals other than humans, and flared up unpredictably. The vector-borne agents include the whole spectrum of infectious agents: viruses, rickettsia, bacteria, protists and helminths. Except for the blood flukes (Schistosoma spp.), most of the disease agents were found to be transmitted by arthropods viz., lice, bugs, mosquitoes, black flies, midges, sand flies, ticks and mites. Among all the blood-feeding group of insects, mosquitoes are by far the most important from the standpoint of human health, responsible for transmission of many pathogens that cause mortality and morbidity.

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Murty, U.S., Wu, J. (2013). Filaria Monitoring Visualization System: A New Dimension for Integrated Control of Lymphatic Filariasis. In: Rao, V., Durvasula, R. (eds) Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3961-5_7

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