study on sandflies in a focus of infantile kala azar in Iraq during 1978

Over 4.00 sandflies were collected throughout the season in 1978. The aim of this study was to incriminate the vector species. It also shows how preliminary studies of possible vector species could be made. Collection was made by different methods from an infantile kala azar focus in the centre of Iraq. All sandflies were identified, 75% of them were dissected in search of promastigotes but none were found