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Biology of the Insect Midgut pp 432–462Cite as

Insect-transmitted pathogens in the insect midgut

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Pathogens are transmitted from one host to another by several routes: airborne, faecal-oral, sexual, direct contact, water-borne and by insects. Other than perhaps airborne transmission, insect-transmitted pathogens may have the greatest capability to spread rapidly through a susceptible host population, particularly when an animal reservoir is involved (perhaps the most dramatic example being the insect and then airborne transmission of Black Death in the Middle Ages).

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Kaslow, D.C., Welburn, S. (1996). Insect-transmitted pathogens in the insect midgut. In: Lehane, M.J., Billingsley, P.F. (eds) Biology of the Insect Midgut. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1519-0_16

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