Effect on the host

SAND FLIES - EFFECT ON THE HOST

Direct

  • Nuisance due to the bites at night

Indirect

  • Vectors for the protozoan  Leishmania donavani (which causes visceral leishmanosis)
  • Phlebotomus sergenti is the vector for Leishmania tropica (which causes cutaneous leishmanosis) 
  • Sandfly fever or Papatasi fever due to a virus which is also transmitted by this fly
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