许多传染病系由以昆虫为主的节肢动物为媒介。这些传染病有疟疾、丝虫病、黄热、登革热、脑炎、鼠疫等。其中仅疟疾在非洲、南美、东南亚等地的患者每年达3亿人之多,死亡200万人。至今,以昆虫为媒介的传染病依然对人类造成极大的问题。上述早已知晓的疾病,再加之新出现的以昆虫为媒 Many infectious diseases are mediated by insect-dominated arthropods. These infectious diseases are malaria, filariasis, yellow fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, plague and so on. Only malaria patients in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and other places every year as many as 300 million people, killing 2 million people. To date, infectious diseases mediated by insects still pose a huge problem for human beings. The previously known diseases, combined with the emerging emergence of insect-mediated agents