Learning Objectives

• Be aware of the viruses and vectors of common and remerging arboviral diseases
• Understand the approaches and limitations of laboratory diagnosis of arboviral diseases and malaria
• Correlate the principles of epidemiology with control of measures of mosquito-borne diseases
• Be familiar with the clinical picture of the arthropod-borne infections: Rickettsia, Orientia, and Coxiella

Vector-Borne Viruses

• what do you ask about in a history?

Rickettsial Infection

• what are the characteristics of rickettsia?
• how does rickettsial infection present?
• what features of a history suggest rickettsia?
• what would you expect investigations to show?
• what pathogen causes scrub typhus?
• what vector spreads scrub typhus?
• what host damage does scrub typhus cause?
• what pathogen causes spotted fever?
• what vector spreads spotted fever?
• how does spotted fever present?
• how is spotted fever diagnosed?