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The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (WRBU) is a world-renowned center of taxonomic excellence, undertaking cutting-edge research to provide actionable entomological intelligence tools and products that best assess global vector-borne disease risk.
- Species profiles
*Associated pathogens: This list reports bacteria, viruses,...
- Genus profiles
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- Identification keys
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- Vector Hazard Reports
Mosquito Activity Forecast U.S. Military Facilities; Notes...
- USNM Collections
Under the care of WRBU, the National Mosquito Collection has...
- Protocols
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- VectorMap
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- Contact
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- Species profiles
Aedes aegypti is the best-studied of all mosquito species, boosted into notoriety by Walter Reed’s discovery that it transmitted yellow fever to man. The distribution of Ae. aegypti is essentially pan-global in tropical regions.
- Our Taxonomic Expertise
- Systematics
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Effective vector-borne disease interventions rely on entomological intelligence: high-quality, current information related to the correct identification, associated biology, and distribution of arthropod vectors. Well-curated archive reference collections are of critical importance to solving modern vector-borne disease problems, increasing in valu...
Catalog of the Culicidae
Revised in 2019, WRBU provides the most up-to-date systematic catalog of all 3,568 formally recognized mosquito species, including subspecies and synonyms, important taxonomic works, and global distributions. This web-based systematics catalog is searchable, allowing users to download up-to-date taxonomic checklists of species by country, region, or taxonomic groupings. The catalog includes links to vector species profiles, which provide high-resolution images and further details on distribut...
WRBU LUCID keys
WRBU created and hosts multi-entry, web-based taxonomic keysdirectly on our website. These unique user-friendly keys are aimed at non-specialists, and contain photographic illustrations of all key characters. LUCID keys are multi-entry, allowing the identification of damaged/incomplete specimens as collected in the field, and making routine species identification easier and more efficient.
VectorMap
WRBU hosts and maintains the world’s largest online database (~0.7 million entries) of high-quality, insect vector surveillance data. The VectorMap approach is unique, in that we are the only database to evaluate data quality based on taxonomic, ecological and geospatial confidence. Distribution data is sourced, cleaned, and curated from museum collections, published literature, and global biosurveillance efforts, and is available for mosquitoes, ticks, sandflies, mites, and biting midges. Ot...
16 de feb. de 2021 · Lo que Alarcón-Elbal y sus colegas encontraron en octubre de 2019 fue el mosquito Aedes vittatus, conocido en otras regiones del planeta pero no registrado en el continente americano.
El Mayor Walter Reed (Belroi, Virginia, Estados Unidos, 13 de septiembre de 1851 - Washington D. C., 22 de noviembre de 1902) fue un médico del ejército de los Estados Unidos que en 1900 dirigió el equipo que confirmó la teoría (expuesta por primera vez en 1881 por el doctor y científico cubano Carlos Finlay) que la fiebre amarilla se ...
29 de may. de 2024 · Walter Reed (born September 13, 1851, Belroi, Virginia, U.S.—died November 22, 1902, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. Army pathologist and bacteriologist who led the experiments that proved that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito.
The brilliant researches of Walter Reed proved that the mosquito Aedes aegypti transmitted yellow fever. This work, carried out with several collaborators, was a landmark in epidemiology and public health and certainly the greatest American medical contribution to that time.
