WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE LA SANTE
WHojvscj72. 408
ENGLISH ONLY
1971
ACTIVITIES OF THE WHO INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE CENTER FOR DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF VECTORS
by John D, Briggs
Faculty of Entomology, The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio
43210,United States of America
Table I , • Table II Table III
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CONTENTS
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WHO/VBC/72.408 page 2
Accession number
1308 1309 1310
1314-l
1315 1316
1317 1318
1319 1320
1321 1322
-2
1323-l, 2
1324-1,2
1325 1326 1327 1328 1329-1,2 1330 1331 1332 1333 1334-1,2 1335-1,2 1336 13:17 1338 133;!-1,2,3
Consignor
J. F. Blaeske F. M. Miller F. M. Miller G.
w.
WhartonF. M. Miller
F. M. Miller W. Tidd
W. L. Barrett H. C. Chapman
J. D. Briggs
w.
L. BarrettG. L. LaBrecque F. J. H. Fredeen G. Kuno
G. Kuno
J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J, Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser
1341
I
J. Weiser J. Weiser
TABLE I. WHO/IRC ANNUAL REPORT 1971
Host
Identity
~sp.
Culex quinquefasciatus Culex quinquefasciatus Glycyphagus sp.
Aedes sollicitans Culiseta inornata Culex quinquefasciatus Salmo gairdneri (trout) head, 15 days post-infection Culex guinquefasciatus (photograph)
Aedes sollicitans
Culex quinquefasciatus (laboratory infected) Culex quinquefasciatus
Aedes aegypti Eusimulium latipes Culex secutor
Culex secutor
Chironomus thumi Simulium sp.
Tipula maxima Anopheles gambiae Tyrophagus noxius Ephemerella ignita Otiorrhynchus ligustici Cacoecia muriuana Phyllotreta atra Ecdynurus venosus Tribolium castaneum Leptophlebia vespertina Enogaster lanestris Tortrix viridana Lymantria dispar Lymantria dispar Bombus agrorum
Life history
stage A L L
N,A
L
L
A~
L
L
Country of origin
Kenya USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA
USA USA
L USA
L USA
L India L Canada L Puerto Rico
L Puerto Rico
NOTE: 1325-1396 Reference slides
Preliminary pathogen/parasite
identification
Class Gordiacea Protozoa/Microsporida Non-spore-forming bacteria
No infectious micro- organisms found in acarine hosts Protozoa/Microsporida in adipose tissue Protozoa/Microsporida in adipose tissue Protozoa/Microsporida Myxosoma cerebralis Prot~zoan causing
"whirling disease"
Large melanized bodies in hemocoel of larvae Virus inclusion bodies in cells of alimentary tract
Protozoa/Microsporida Dried, field-collected larvae with Protozoa/
Microsporida
Spore-forming bacteria Nematode
Protozoa/Microsporida
Protozoa/Microsporida
Nosema zaureli Nosema stricklandi Nosema binucleatum Nosema stegomyiae Nosema steinhausi Nosema tatrica Nosema otiorrhynchi Nosema cacoeciae Nosema phyllotretae Nosema baetis Nosema whitei Nosema leptophlebiae Nosema zwolferi Nosema tortricis Nosema lymantriae Nosema muscularis Nosema bambi
Accession
number Consignor
1342 J. Weiser 1343 J. Weiser 1344 J. Weiser 1345 J. Weiser 1346 J. Weiser 1347 J. Weiser 1348 J. Weiser 1349 J. Weiser 1350 J. Weiser 1351 J. Weiser 1352 J. Weiser 1353 J. Weiser 1354 J. Weiser 1355 J. Weiser 1356 J. Weiser 1357 J. Weiser 1358 J. Weiser 1359 J. Weiser 1360 J. Weiser
1~61 J. Weiser 1362 J. Weiser 1363 J. Weiser 1364 J. Weiser 1365 J. Weiser 1366 J. Weiser 1367 J. Weiser 1368 J. Weiser 1369 J. Weiser 1370 J. Weiser 1371 J. Weiser 1372 J. Weiser 1373 J. Weiser 1374 J. Weiser 1375 J. Weiser 1376 J. Weiser 1377 J. Weiser 1378 J. Weiser 1379 J. Weiser 1380-1,2 J. Weiser 1381 J. Weiser 1382-1,2 J. Weiser 1383 J. Weiser 1384 J. Weiser
TABLE I. WHOjiRC ANNUAL REPORT (continued) 1971
Host
Country
Life of
Identity history origin stage
Cloeon dipterum NOTE: 1325/1396 Daphnia pulex Reference slides Monieria benedini
"
Pieris brassicae
"
Pieris chalcograph
"
Tissue: muscle
"
Melolontha melo1antha
"
Cyclops is sp.
"
Tineola biselliella
"
Graphoronia sp.
"
Hellobdella sp.
"
Laphygma frugiEerda
"
Malacosoma neustrium
"
Carpocapsa pommonella
"
L;)::mantria dis Ear
"
P1ectrocnemia vespertina
"
Aedes nemorosus
"
Eusimulium latipes
"
Corethra sp.
"
Daphnica pulex
"
Simulium sp.
"
Cyclops vicinus
"
Vanessa urticae
"
Pol~centropus
"
flavomaculati
Eriogaster lanestris
"
N~~ia Ehacorrhoca
"
H~phantria cunea
"
Chironomus thumi
"
Camptochironomus ten tans
"
Baetis pumilis
"
Plectrocnemia vespertina "
Cloeon dipterum "
Malacosoma disstria "
Chironomus sp. "
"
Chironomus thumi "
Daphnia ma!E!a "
Esox lucius
"
H~phantria cunea
"
Corethra sp.
"
Simulium morsitans
"
Chironomus thumi
"
Daphnia magna
I "
WHojvacj72.408
page 3
Preliminary pathogen/parasite
identification
Nosema baetis Nosema elon11;atum Nosema bischofi Nosema mesnili Nosema chalcograph Nosema sp.
- - -
Nosema melolontha Nosema cyclopsis Nosema lotrnaris Nosema graphoronia Nosema glosiphoniae Nosema laphygmae Nosema disstria Nosema carpocapsae Nosema serlica GlugeaiPerezia/
tricoEterae Thelohania opacita Thelohania bracteata Thelohania corethrae Thelohania cladocera Thelohania fibrata The1ohania c~clopsis
Thelohania vanessae Thelohania lairdi ThelohRnia eriogastri Thelohania simi lis Thelohania hyphantriae The1ohania breindli Thelohania pinguis Thelohania wurmi Thelohania plectrocnemiae The1ohania baetica Thelohania plistophora Thelohania asterias Duboscquia sidae Plistophora jiroveci Plistophora obtusa Plistophora oolytica Plistophora schubergi Plistophora chaobori Plistophora multispora Plistophora chironomi Plistophora
intestinalis
I I
WHojvscj72.408 page 4
Accession number
1385 1386 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1399 1400 1402
Consignor
,]
.
Weiser ,J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. WeiserJ. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser J. Weiser P. F. Mattingly E.
w.
Cupp R,s.
PattersonTABLE I. WHOjiRC ANNUAL REPORT (continued) 1971
Host
I
I
Coun1:ry
Life of
Identity history origin
stage
Calopteryx sp, NOTE: 1325/1396 Reference sli.cies
Nygmia phacorrhoca
..
Simulium sp.
..
Culiseta corigrarcolata L
,,
Culiseta corigrarcolata A..
Scolytus multistriatus
..
Simulium latipes
..
Chloroperla sp.
..
Tortrix viridana
..
Rithro~ena sp.
..
Nosema mesnili
..
Choristoneura fumiferana
..
Armigeres (Leicesteria) Eggs England dentatus
Mansonia per turbans
I
A USA
Aedes aegn~ti L India
Preliminary pathogen/parasite
identification
Plistophora calopterygis Plistophora aporiae Plistophora simulii Plistophora culisetae
-
Plistophora culisetae Plistophora scoll:ti Caudospora simulii Toxoglugea
chloroperlae
Octosporea viridanae Trichoduboscqui excari Anilastus ebeninus Perezia fumiferanae Internal parasiti.zed eggs
Acarina
Protozoa/Eu~regarinid
Accession number
1308
1309
1310
1312 1314-1
1315 1316
1317 -2
1318
1319 1320 1321
1322 1323-1,2
1324-1,2 1325 through 1396
1399
1400
1402
TABLE II.
Pathogen/parasite identification, with comments where applicable Beatogordius sp.
Stempellia sp.
Reference material retained by the University of Texas, School of Public Health, for specific identification
Pending
Pending Stempellia sp.
Reference slide (see Table I) retained by IRC
Encystment of spores of parasitic protozoa:
Microsporida
Nuclear and cytoplasmic po1yhedrosis viruses
Stempellia sp.
Stempellia sp.
Bacillus spp. and characteris- tic groups II and III
Larval Mermithidae Pending
Pending
Reference slides (see Table I)
Possible fungus parasite, Lagenidium sp.
Water mite, Arrenurus sp.
Pending
WHOjiRC ANNUAL REPORT 1971
By J. E. Zapotosky
E. I. Hazard
F. M. Miller
J. D. Briggs E. I. Hazard
E. I. Hazard E. I. Hazard
J. D. Briggs
H.
c.
ChapmanJ. D. Briggs J. D. Briggs
s.
SingerJ. L. Crites E. I. Hazard
E. I. Hazard
P. F. Mattingly
D. E. Johnston
J. Vavra
Identification Of
WHOjVBCj72. 408 page 5
WHO International Reference Center The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA USDAjARS
P.O. Box 1268
Gainesville, Florida 32601, USA University of Texas
School of Public Health P.o. Box 20186
Astrodome Station
Houston, Texas 77025, USA
WHO International Reference Center USDA jARS
P.O. Box 1268
Gainesville, Florida 32601, USA
WHO International Reference Center
USDAjARS
Avenue J-Chennault
Lake Charles, La. 70601, USA WHO International Reference Center
Biological Sciences
Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois 61455, USA
WHO International Reference Center USDAjARS
P.o. Box 1268
Gainesville, Florida 32601, USA
Department of Entomology British Museum, Cromwell Road London, S.W.7
ENGLAND
Acarology Laboratory The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA Institute of Parasitology
Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences Prague, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
WHojvBc/72.408 page 6
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Accession number
1033
1242
1246
1288
1296-1,2
1298
1304
TABLE III. FINAL DETERMINATIONS 1965, 1969, and 1970
Pathogen/parasite identification, with comments where applicable Tolypocladium inflatum
Bacillus sp. characteristic of group II
Bacillus sp. characteristic of group II
Probable Chytridiales
Coelomomyces, additional material requested
Insufficient structures of fungus for determination.
Possible secondary invader
Possible Saprolegniaceae
By E. Muller-Kogler
s.
Singers.
SingerE. Muller-Kogler
J. Couch
E. Muller-Kogler
E. Muller-Kogler
Identification Of
Institut fur Biologische Schadlingsbekampfung Kranichsteinerstrasse 81 6100 Darmstadt,
GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC Biological Sciences
Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois 61455, USA
Institut fur Biologische Schadlingsbekampfung Kranichsteinerstrasse 81 6100 Darmstadt,
GERMAN FEDERAL REPOBLIC University of North Carolina Department of Botany
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514, USA Institut fur Biologische
Schadlingsbekampfung Kranichsteinerstrasse 81 6100 Darmstadt,
GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC