Catalogue

[Govind Modi]

Hi Paul,

I am interested in obtaining a copy of your publication "A catalogue of
Old World phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera:Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)".
Would you please send me a copy or inform me how I can obtain it.

Thanks.

Govind B. Modi
Visiting Associate
Laboratory of parasitic Diseases
Bldg. 4, RM B1-12
NIAID, NIH
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892-0425

Tel: 301-496-0577
Fax: 301-480-3708


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> From: 	P.Ready at nhm.ac.uk[SMTP:P.Ready at nhm.ac.uk]
> Reply To: 	leish-l at bdt.org.br
> Sent: 	Wednesday, February 18, 1998 11:43 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: WHO's Leishmaniasis Press Release
> 
> >     Press Release WHO/24
> >     13 February 1998     
> >     DRAMATIC UPSURGE IN VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS CASES IN THE HORN OF
> AFRICA
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> I realize that vector identification studies are not the first
> priority for
> dealing with the upsurge in the Horn of Africa, but they will play
> some
> part in monitoring the effectiveness of insecticide-impregnated
> bednets.
> The Horn of Africa is the home of several little-studied Phlebotomus
> species classified in groups (subgenera) that contain many vectors of
> Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum, infections of which lead
> to
> visceral leishmaniasis. As part of a TDR training grant, Miss Selma
> Esseghir (Institut Pasteur de Tunis) has been working in my
> laboratory,
> using DNA sequence analysis to identify and relate species of
> Larroussius
> and related phlebotomines (including Phlebotomus orientalis, the
> vector of
> Leishmania donovani in Sudan). This unpublished database puts us in an
> unique position to recognize new species of phlebotomines and to
> resolve
> the identification of little-known species named in the literature.
> This
> laboratory would be pleased to help any (African) entomologists who
> are
> finding it difficult to identify Phlebotomus caught in the Horn of
> Africa.
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Paul Ready PhD
> 
> Head of Molecular Systematics Division, Dept of Entomology, The
> Natural
> History Museum, London SW7 5BD
> 
> Fax 44 (0)171 938 8937
> Tel 44 (0)171 938 9356/8747
> 
> 
> Some references:
> 
> Esseghir, S., Ready, P.D., Killick-Kendrick R. & Ben-Ismail, R. (1997)
> Mitochondrial haplotypes and phylogeography of Phlebotomus vectors of
> Leishmania major. Insect Molecular Biology 6, 211-225.
> 
> Ready, P.D., Day, J.C., de Souza, A.A., Rangel, E.F. & Davies, C.R.
> (1997).
> Mitochondrial DNA characterization of populations of Lutzomyia
> whitmani
> (Diptera: Psychodidae) incriminated in the peri-domestic and silvatic
> transmission of Leishmania species in Brazil. Bulletin of
> Entomological
> Research 87, 187-195.
> 
> Seccombe, A.K., Ready, P.D. & Huddleston, L.M. (1993) A catalogue of
> Old
> World phlebotomine sandflies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae).
> Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 8, 1-57.
>