Medical Entomology Project

The Medical Entomology Project (MEP), a cooperative venture between the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, conducts biosystematic research on arthropods of medical importance to the Army. MEP fulfills this requirement by performing biosystematic studi...

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Main Author: Flint,Oliver S , Jr
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
ARBOVIRUSES
ARMY
ARTHROPODA
AS802
CULICIDAE
DISEASE VECTORS
ECOLOGY
ENTOMOLOGY
MALARIA
MEDICAL RESEARCH
Medicine and Medical Research
PE62770A
TAXONOMY
WU068
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Summary:The Medical Entomology Project (MEP), a cooperative venture between the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, conducts biosystematic research on arthropods of medical importance to the Army. MEP fulfills this requirement by performing biosystematic studies on important groups of vectors such as anopheline vectors of malaria and culicine vectors of arbovirus diseases, providing information on potential vectors for the guidance of military field research teams and other governmental agencies and preparing monographs and technical papers which summarize data on the ecology, taxonomy and medical importance of arthropod vectors in various regions of the world. In addition, MEP performs curation and research on the national collection of mosquitoes at the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), Smithsonian Institution.