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Introduction

Mosquitoes (family Culicidae) are at the center of worldwide entomological research primarily because of their medical importance as vectors of dangerous diseases, such as malaria; yellow, dengue, West Nile, Zika, and chikungunya fever; Japanese encephalitis; or lymphatic filariasis. More than half of the world’s population lives under the risk of becoming infected by the causative agents of these diseases. Estimates made by the World Health Organization (WHO) show that 207 millions of people became ill in 2012 and more than 627,000 people died (WHO 2013). Although approximately three quarters of all mosquito species occur in the humid tropics and subtropics, mosquitoes are not just a problem of these regions. However, mosquitoes may also cause a considerable nuisance or occasionally can transmit pathogens to humans in temperate latitudes. Mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile, chikungunya, or dengue fever remain also a significant burden in Europe, e.g., till...

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Acknowledgments

I am grateful to numerous individuals and organizations who assisted in various ways towards the preparation of this manuscript. I am most indebted to the co-authors of the book “Mosquitoes and their Control” namely Marija Zgomba, Dusan Petric, Clive Boase, Minoo Madon, Christine Dahl and Achim Kaiser as well as the members of the German Mosquito Control Association (KABS), the Institute of Dipterology (IfD), the colleagues at the University of Heidelberg especially to Professors Volker Storch and Thomas Braunbeck, the members of the European Mosquito Control Association (EMCA).

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Becker, N. (2015). Mosquito Control. In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_2012-2

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