Medicinski značaj porodice komaraca (Diptera, Culicidae)

undergraduate thesis

• Title (english): Medical importance of the mosquito family (Diptera, Culicidae)
• Author: Marta Radošević
• Mentor: Marija Ivković (mentor)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; (Department of Biology); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2020-07-22, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: NATURAL SCIENCES; Biology

Abstract

Komarci su životinje koje pripadaju porodici Culicidae i kozmopolitski su rašireni.
Značajni su za ljude jer su poznati prijenosnici mnogih ljudskih i životinjskih patogena najčešće
virusa, protista ili oblića. Najčešće ljudi budu slučajno uvučeni u životni ciklus ovih patogena
koji su primarno paraziti u različitim vrstama kralježnjaka. Najpoznatije bolesti čiji uzročnici
koriste komarce kao primarne vektore u prijenosu, a pogađaju ljude i životinje, su: Dengue
groznica, Žuta groznica, groznica Zapadnog Nila, Japanski encefalitis, Malarija, Filarijaza,
ZIKA groznica i dr. Navedene bolesti kod ljudi mogu i u većini slučajeva i prolaze
asimptomatski, ali u slučajevima kada dođe do pojave kliničke manifestacije bolesti većinom
se radi o simptomima koji uvelike umanjuju kvalitetu života pacijenta i mogu imati ozbiljne
posljedice na imunitet i centralni živčani sustav, a ponekad i završiti smrću. Kontrola ovih
bolesti zasada se vrši pomoću cjepiva dostupnih za određene bolesti, a za one koje zasad nemaju
razvijeno efektivno cjepivo kontrola se vrši smanjenjem kontakta ljudi i komaraca te kontrolom
same populacije komaraca koji su poznati kao vektori u transmisiji.

Abstract (english)

Mosquitos are animals that belong to the family Culicidae and have cosmopolitan
distribution. They are significant for people because they are known vectors of various human
and animal pathogens, such as viruses, protists and roundworms. In most cases, humans are
involved in these life cycles, of primary vertebrate animal pathogens, by accident. Best-known
mosquito-borne diseases that affect people are Dengue fever, Yellow fever, West Nile fever,
Japanese encephalitis, Malaria, Filariasis, ZIKA etc.
In most cases infections in humans go by without symptoms, but in cases that evolve clinical
manifestation , the symptoms reduce the life quality of the patients and can have serious
consequences on the immune system and the central nervous system, and in some cases can
even be fatal. Control of these disease is manly done by vaccination for those disease that have
an effective vaccine develop. For those diseases that do not have an effective vaccine develop
the measures of control consist of reduction in human-mosquito contact and vector control.

• Keywords: komarci; medicinski značaj
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:217:811233
• Study programme: Title: Ecology; Study programme type: university; Study level: undergraduate; Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) biologije (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) biologije)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-07-22 11:43:48