sandflies

Parasitic infections can be caused by hookworms, snails, or sandflies that are infected with the parasites.

Vaccine Schedules 2010

Visceral Leishmaniasis: A parasitic infection spread by sandflies that attacks the internal organs.

Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases Jeanne Whalen 2012

In the animal world, research has found that hamsters infected with Leishmaniasis, a flesh-eating disease common in much of the developing world, attract disease-spreading sandflies.

Wired Top Stories 2010

Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

To transmit Leishmania you need sandflies, there no direct human-to-human transmission.

Once Again, Texas Leads the Way Bill Crider 2007

Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

They are housed, both sexes, in a long shed lined with wooden bunks filled with hay, infested with mosquitoes and sandflies.

'The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul' 2008

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - caused by the parasitic protozoa leishmania; transmitted to humans via the bite of sandflies; results in skin lesions that may become chronic; endemic in 88 countries; 90% of cases occur in Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Peru; wild and domesticated animals as well as humans can act as reservoirs of infection.

Notes and Definitions 2008

Infectious agents (such as protozoa, bacteria and viruses) and their associated vector organisms (such as mosquitoes, ticks and sandflies) are devoid of thermostatic mechanisms, and reproduction and survival rates are thus strongly affected by fluctuations in temperature.

The Volokh Conspiracy » British High Court decision on “An Inconvenient Truth”: 2007

They were lying on the beach after bathing, trying to protect their bare and blistered legs from the sandflies.

The Getting of Wisdom 2003