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Also Known As Culicidae

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auditory mechanisms in insects
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Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-American scientist
Manson, detail of an oil painting by J. Young Hunter, 1912; in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London
Sir Patrick Manson
Scottish parasitologist
Jesse William Lazear
American physician
Marston Bates
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