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Armed Forces Pest Management Board Recommends policy, provides guidance, and coordinates the exchange of information on all matters related to DoD pest management.
BEI Resources BEI Resources provide cultures and reagents, including live vectors and genomic material for vector-borne diseases research. BEI Resources materials are provided at no cost to registered researchers. All Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Resource Center (MR4) content and material are now available in this website.
Disease maps at the USGS Maps for west nile virus (WNV), St. louis encephalitis (SLE), eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), western equine encephalitis (WEE), La Crosse encephalitis (LAC), Powassan Virus (POW), and Dengue fever locally acquired and imported (DEN-loc and DEN-imported).
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID): Resources for Investigators The Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) supports extramural research to control and prevent diseases caused by virtually all human infectious agents except HIV.
International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) An NIAID global network of independent research centers in malaria-endemic settings, to provide the knowledge, tools, and evidence-based strategies crucial to understanding, controlling, and, ultimately, preventing malaria.
Iowa State Entomology Image Gallery This gallery includes flies, mosquitoes and ticks images.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Resources for Investigators NIAID resources for researchers offers product development resources, cooperative research and materials licensing agreements, computational biology tools, global research and development projects, and more.
President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) When it was launched in 2005, the goal of the PMI was to reduce malaria-related mortality by 50 percent across 15 high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Major changes have been incorporated since, including the program expansion to many more countries.
Regional Centers of Excellence (COE) in Vector-Borne Diseases In 2017, five universities were established as COEs to help prevent and rapidly respond to emerging vector-borne diseases across the United States. This link includes the goals and list of the websites of each COE:

  • The Northeast Regional COE at Cornell University
  • The Pacific Southwest COE at the University of California, Davis and Riverside
  • The Southeastern Regional COE at the University of Florida
  • The Western Gulf COE at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
  • The Midwest COE at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sand fly fellas

A sand fly rearing guide
TDR Diseases and Topics This page includes links to pages where you can find news, publications, documentaries, animations and other resources for each disease and topic.
The Worldwide Insecticide resistance Network (WIN) WIN proposes to bring together 19 internationally recognized institutions in vector research, providing a unique framework for tracking insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors of arboviruses around the world. The network aims at identifying the particular countries/regions where resistance could challenge vector control interventions and to provide the WHO and member states with key recommendations for improvement of insecticide resistance surveillance and deployment of alternative vector control tools.
Transcriptome Resources

Transcriptomes of vector arthropods and non-vector, medically important arthropods and snakes:

  • Salivary transcriptomes (sialome) of ticks
  • Salivary transcriptomes (sialome) of blood feeding insects
  • Non-blood feeding sialotranscriptomes
  • Whole Organism Transcriptome
  • Poisonous animals
  • ReAnoXcel: an Anopheles gambiae protein database [Maintained]
  • AnoXcel: an Anopheles gambiae protein database [Old Dataset - Dec 2004]
  • AegyXcel: an Aedes aegypti protein database
  • CuquiXcel: an Culex quinquefasciatus protein database
  • IscaXcel: an Ixodes scapularis protein database
WHO Fact Sheets The fact sheets contain information from diseases and other conditions such as key facts, definition, disease forms in animals and humans, distribution, current situation in endemic countries, infection and symptoms, disease management (diagnosis) and treatment.
Free literature / Publications
PubMed Central PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Seek, and ye shall find: Accessing the global epidemiological literature in different languages Follow the link to access free full text for all the nine papers in this issue (Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, year 2008, 5:21). Suggested resources include search databases for papers in the following languages: Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian and others.
WRBU Taxonomic Literature Search The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit's (WRBU's) is a searchable database of mosquito systematics literature. It is an online collection of scientific papers in PDF format, drawn from books, journals, reprints, reports, and other sources.
Anopheles
Major Malaria Vectors Worldwide Map

This map shows the most important malaria vectors with geographical naming following MacDonald, G. (1957; The Epidemiology and Control of Malaria [xiv + 201 + xl +11 pp.] Oxford University Press, London). Abbreviations for subgenera given in parentheses are: A,Anopheles s.str.; C, Cellia; K, Kerteszia; N, Nyssorhynchus. The data have been compiled from: M.W. Service (1993) Mosquitoes (Culicidae) in: Medical Insects and Arachnids (R.P. Lane & R.W. Grosskey, eds.) Chapman & Hall, London, pp. 120-240.

Click on a shaded region to see the Anopheles species present, main (primary) vectors are distinguished from subsidiary (incidental and local) vectors by bold type.

Roll Back Malaria The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership is the global framework to implement coordinated action against malaria.
Culex
The CDC's West Nile Website Hosted by the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases at CDC.