Culex pipiens Complex Symposium: global perspectives in the 21st century. Foreword.

摘要

In the annals of medical entomology, more than a few studies exist of mosquito biology in the context of infectious disease transmission that have been categorized as 'classical' for the creativity and uniqueness from a biological and/ or epidemiological perspectives. From my own experience and readings, the following comes to mind as classical: the European Anopheles macu-lipennis complex ("anophelism without malaria"), malaria eradication: the Sardinian experiment, population regulation and genetic feedback of myxomatosis in Australia, overwintering of Western equine and St. Louis Encephalitis viruses in western North America, to list just a few. The ongoing focus of the An. gambiae complex including the S and M forms in tropical Africa will, when completed, no doubt be included in the category of 'classic'.