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Introduction to medical entomology
M. W. Service
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Abstract
The study of insects is termed entomology. Medical entomology is a specialisation that involves the study of those insects that are of medical importance, for example mosquitoes, flies, lice and fleas. However, the term medical entomology is usually used in a broader sense to take into account the arachnids, a group of invertebrates that includes ticks and mites, that are not insects but nevertheless may be of considerable medical importance.