Spm entomology spotters (insects of public health importance)

TONY SCARIA 2010 KMC

Entomology

• study of insects of medical importance


• Vector :- is an arthtropod or any living carrier that transport an infectious agent to susceptible host

• Extrensic incubation period :10-14 days malaria /filaria

• Definitive / intermediate host


MODE OF TRANSMISSION OF DISEASES BY ARTHROPODS

• CONTACT TRANSMISSION

• MECHANICAL OR DIRECT TRANSMISSION

• BIOLOGICAL TRANSMISSIONPropagative CyclopropagativeCyclodevelopmental


Biological transmission

• TRANSOVARIAN TRASMISSION:

• TRANSSTADIAL TRANSMISSION


PHYLUM ARTHROPODA

• CLASS INSECTA :

• CLASS ARACHINIDA

• CLASS CRUSTACEA -CYCLOPS


INSECT ORDERS OF MEDICAL IMPORTANCE

• PHYLUM ARTHROPODA

• CLASS INSECTA

• ORDER DIPTERA- Includes MOSQUITOES, HOUSE FLY,SAND FLY etc

• ORDER SIPHONAPTERA-FLEAS

• ORDER PHTHIRAPTERA-LICE


MOSQUITOES

• Tribe ANOPHILINI : Anopheles mosquitoes

• Tribe CULICINI : Culex, Aedes and Mansonia


BIONOMICS

• Study of habit and habitat of any organism

• Breeding habits, feeding habits, host preference,

resting habits, flight range if flying, longevity etc of

the vector

• If we want to control a VBD we have to know the

bionomics of the vector


BIONOMICS OF MOSQUITOES

BREEDING HABITS

• Breeding place is water

• The water may be stagnant pollutted, clear, artificial, natural, moving, with some weeds or with shade

• In one ml of water or even in moist breeding places the mosquitoes can breed


FEEDING HABITS

• Only FEMALE mosquitoes take blood meal

• Female mosquito needs a blood meal in every 48-72 hours for the maturation of the eggs

• Anopheles, Culex & Mansonia :nocturnal feeders

• Aedes mosquitoes: Diurnal feeders


RESTING HABITS

• ENDOPHILISM : After a full blood meal mosquitoes prefer to rest inside

• EXOPHILISM: After a full blood meal mosquitoes prefer to rest outside

• Important in the disease control aspect


BIONOMICS

• According to the host preference they are divided into

– Anthrophilic – taking blood from humans

– Zoophilic- taking blood from animals

– Ornithophilic- taking blood from birds

• This habits are important in the disease transmission aspect


BIONOMICS

Flight RANGE

• This is the minimum distance they can fly from the breeding places in search of food

• A female mosquito is able to fly a distance of 0.5 to 2Km

• Important in disease transmission


LIFE CYCLE OF MOSQUITOES

• Four stages: EGG, LARVA, PUPA & ADULT

• Complete metamorphosis or holometablous

• Life cycle :completed within 6 to 8 days

• The egg, larva and pupa are in water &adult is terrestrial


LIFE CYCLE

• EGGS : Are laid in water.

• 48 to 72 hours after a full blood meal a female mosquito will lay 100 to 150 eggs at a sitting.

• Eggs may be laid singly or in groups.

• The period between blood meal to time of egg laying : Gonotrophic cycle.


LIFE CYCLELARVA

• Egg to first instar larva: 1 to 2 days

• Head, thorax and abdomen

• Thorax unsegmeted. Abdomen 10 segmented.

• Siphon tube: 8th segment (except anopheles)


LIFE CYCLE-LARVA


LIFE CYCLE -LARVA

• Four instar stages in the larval stage

• Larva undergoes 3 moultings

• Feeds on micro organisms.

• Larval stage lasts for 4 to 6 days

• 4th instar develop into pupa


LIFE CYCLE-PUPA

• Non feeding stage/resting stage

• Comma shaped

• Cephalothorax and segmented abdomen

• Two small respiratory tubes or trumpets :upper surface of the thorax.

• Stay quiet at water surface


LIFE CYCLE - PUPA


LIFE CYCLE -PUPA

• Pupal stage :1-2 days

• From the pupa emerges out the adult

• Egg to adult : 6 to 8 days


LIFE CYCLE –EMERGENCE OF THE ADULT


ADULT MOSQUITO

• Body : head, thorax & Abdomen

• Head : A pair of large compound eyes

(semiglobular) A probocis

A pair of palpi (4 segmented)

A pair of antennae

• Thorax : 1 pair of wings & 3 pairs of legs

• Abdomen : 10 segments

Last 2 modified to Ext. genitalia


ADULT MOSQUITO

ANTENNA

Male - bushy or Plumose

Female - scanty hairs or Pilose.


LIFE CYCLE -ADULT


ADULT MOSQUITO


ADULT MOSQUITO

• THORAX-Pronotum, Mesonotum and Metanotum

• Mesontum having a pair of wings

• Wings having 6 veins with hairs

• A pair of rudimentary wings : Halteres

• Thorax :3 pairs of legs


ADULT MOSQUITO

ABDOMEN

• Ten segmented

• Only 8 are visible

• Last 2 are modified as external genital organs.


SPECIES IDENTIFICATION


ANOPHELES EGG

• Breeding :clear water

• Eggs: laid singly

• Boat shaped with lateral floats or air sacs

• Air sacs prevent submerging/floating


ANPOHELES EGG


EGG OF ANOPHELES


ANOPHELES MOSQUITO LARVA

• Rest Parallel to the water surface

• Palmate hairs: both sides of all abdominal segments

• A pair spiracles: 8th abdominal segment for breathing

• No siphon tube


ANOPHELES MOSQUITO LARVA


ANOPHELES LARVA


ANOPHELES MOSQUITO PUPA

• Cephalothorax :short &broad respiratory trumpet ( siphon tube)

• Abdomen :palmate hairs


ANOPHELES PUPA


ANPOPHELES ADULT

PROBOCIS


ANOPHELES ADULT

• Head:compound eyes,proboscis ,maxillary palpi and antennae.

• Rests at an angle to the surface

• Proboscis &maxillary palpi have equal length

• Wings spotted

• The hairs on the wing veins are arranged in a spotted manner


ANOPHELES ADULT

• Antennae : Bushy – male

Less hairy - female

• Tip of palpi: Club shaped- male

Straight - female


ANOPHELES ADULT


ANOPHELES FEMALE HEAD


ANOPHELES ADULT MALE


Anopheles adult male brushy palpae


Anopheles female


ANOPHELES AS VECTORS OF MALARIA

• India :70 species (10 -15 species : vectors)

• An.stephensi :Urban vector overhead tanks

• An. Culicifacies :Rural vector in and around paddy fields


VECTOR BIONOMICS

• Breeding habit: clean water– Slow moving stream of water,puddles of rain water

• Biting time : early part of night

• Resting habit: mainly endophilic

• Feeding habit: females blood meal every 2-3 days: Males never bite

• Both anthropophilc & zoophilic


ANOPHELES AS VECTORS OF MALARIA

• An. Fluviatilis & minimus: in foot-hill regions

• An.sundaicus& stephansi : coastal areas

• An.philipenensis& culicifavies: plain areas

• An.balabacensis in forest areas


CULEX MOSQUITOES

• “Nuisance mosquitoes”

• Breeding places : stagnant polluted water

• Eggs : Raft like clusters (100-250 egg)

• Egg :cigar shaped with one end pointed


CULEX EGG RAFT


Culex egg raft


CULEX LARVA

• Culex larva : hangs downwards from the water surface

• Siphon tube : long & tubular 8th abdominal segment

• No palmate hair or spiracle


CULEX LARVA


Culex larvae


CULEX PUPA

• A large cephalothorax & narrow segmented abdomen with a pair of paddles.

• Cephalothorax : a pair of respiratoty trumpet long and tubular


CULEX PUPA


CULEX ADULT MOSQUITO

• Palpi & probocis : Dfferent length

• Wings uniform


HOUSEFLY WING



• Male culicine mosquitoes: maxillary palp are longer than proboscis and some what diverted

• Female culicine:length of palpi is one third of proboscis

• Antenna plumose in male and pilose in female


CULEX MALE HEAD


CULEX FEMALE HEAD


CULEX ADULT MALE


CULEX ADULT FEMALE


VECTOR BIONOMICS

• Breeding habit : polluted & dirty water (cesspools ,drainage, stagnant water collections, septic tank, burrow pits , sewage)

• Feeding : mainly antropophilic

• Biting time : midnight

• Resting habit: Endophilic


CULEX MOSQUITO AS VECTORS

• 2500 species

• Lymphatic filariasis & JE

• Culex quiquefasciatus formerly known as C.fatigans : bancroftian Filarisis.


CULEX MOSQUITO AS VECTORS

• JE: C. tritaenorhynchus, C. vishnui and

C. pseudovishnui (vishnui complex)

• Breeding places : in and around paddy fields.


Culex female


Culex female head


Culex male


Culex male head


Wing of culex


AEDES MOSQUITO (STEGOMYIA)

• Eggs : laid singly

• Egg :torpedo shaped

• Withstand drying upto one year.

• In 1 ml of water or even in moist places it can lay eggs.


AEDES MOQUITO EGG


AEDES MOSQUITO LARVA

• larva :worm like with head, thorax and abdomen.

• Suspended in water at an angle to water surface

• Siphon tube : broad & short

- 8th abdominal segment

- barrel shaped and brown in colour with a hair tuft on it


AEDES MOSQUITO LARVA


Aedes larvae


AEDES MOSQUITO PUPA

• Comma shaped with cephalothorax and segmented abdomen.

• The breathing trumpets are short and stumpy


AEDES MOSQUITO PUPA


AEDES ADULT

• White stripes on black body

• Legs also have banded apperance ( tiger)

• Wings uniform


AEDES ADULT

• Antennae : Bushy – male

Less hairy – female

• Smaller than other mosquito species

• Rest of features (palpi & probocis) similar to culex


AEDES ADULT MOSQUITO


Aedes adult male


Aedes adult female


AEDES MOSQUITO AS VECTORS

• Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

• Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Yellow fever

• A.aegypti - clear water & Ae.albopictus - tree holes.


VECTOR BIONOMICS

• Breeding : container breeders

• Feeding habit: mainly anthropophilic

• Biting time : “fearless day biters”

• Flight range : less than 100m


AEDES MOSQUITO INDICES

1. Aedes aegypti index or house index.

Ratio expressed as percentage

Number of houses showing actual breeding sites of A. Aegypti to the total number of houses examined in a limited well defined area multiplied by 100.


AEDES MOSQUITO INDICES

2 BRETEAU INDEX : This is total number of positive containers for Aedes breeding divided by total number of houses examined multiplied by 100

3 CONTAINER INDEX: This is the total number of positive containers divided by total number of containers examined multiplied by 100.

4 PUPAL INDEX: Number of containers having pupa divided by total containers examined multiplied by 100


MANSONIA MOSQUITOES

• Eggs : groups & the under surface of the leaves of these water plants

• Egg : spindle shaped

• Each egg group : flower like or star shaped cluster


MANSONIA MOSQUIT EGG


Mansonia egg


MANSONIA MOSQUITO LARVA

• Suspended at an angle to water surface

• Siphon tube : triangular with chitinous tip

• If detached from water plants it die due to suffocation.


MANSONIA MOSQUITO LARVA


Mansonia larvae


MANSONIA PUPA

• Large cephalothorax & segmented abdomen

• Cephalothorax: siphon tube long & narrow with chitinous tip

• Like larva it also attaches to the water plants and get oxygen.


MANSONIA PUPA


MANSONIA ADULT MOSQUITO

• Speckled wings and legs

• Antennae : bushy – male

Less hairy – female

• Head :same as that of culex mosquito.


VECTOR BIONOMICS

• Biting time: night

• Feeding habit : both antropophilic & zoophilic

• Resting habits : outdoors


MANSONIA ADULT MOSQUITO


MANSONIA AS VECTORS OF DISEASE

• Brugia malayi type of filariasis: M.Annulifera,

M.Uniformis, M.Indiana and M. Longipalpis

• Breeding :water with aquatic vegetations such as pistia, salvinia and eichornia.

• Above species are seen in the coastal areas of kollam, alappuzha, ernakulam etc.


AEDES EGG


AEDES MOSQUITO


AEDES LARVA


CULEX ADULT FEMALE


CULEX MALE HEAD


CULEX LARVA


ANOPHELES FEMALE HEAD


ANOPHELES ADULT FEMALE


House fly

Important species are

• Musca domestica

• Musca vicinia

• Musca nebulo

• Musca sorbens


House fly • Mouse grey in colour

• 6-7 mm long, hairy

• Three body segments

• Head, thorax and abdomen

• Six legs

• A pair of wings

• Wings-transparent


House fly - Head

• A pair of compound eyes

• Eyes are closer in males and

far apart in females

• A pair of antenna - small

• Retractile proboscis


• Thorax- 2-4 dark longitudinal stripes

• A pair of wings, 3 pairs of legs

• Legs- pads : help the fly to walk on polished surface

• Tenent hairs - Short & stiff hairs are present in the

body and legs - secrete a sticky substance


House fly- life cycle

• Egg- 120-150 eggs/sitting, 1mmlong, pearly white and

they hatch out in 8-24 hours

• Larva (maggots) – 1-2 mm length, segmented, worm

like, no eyes / appendages, a narrow anterior and

broader posterior end, (2-7 days)

• Pupa- white in early stages, later it becomes dark,

barrel shaped, 3-6 days


8-24h

•2-7 d

•2-6 d

Adult - 8-20/ 5-6 days

•Lives- 15 / 25days


Egg of housefly


Pupae of house fly


Larvae of house fly


Housefly mouth parts


Wing of housefly



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Habits

• Breeding Animal and human excreta, garbage,

decaying fruits and vegetables

• Feeding Does not bite, Can not eat solid food.

• Resting Rest on vertical surfaces and hanging

objects

• Dispersal 4 miles

• Vomit drop & defecation


Transmission

• Mechanical :Ova & cyst etc mechanically and called

porters of infection.

• Vomit drop It is a rich bacterial culture

• Defecation


Mechanical transmission of diseases

• Viruses : Hepatitis, poliomyelitis.

• Bacterial : Enteric fever, bacillary dysentery, cholera, wound

infection & trachoma.

• Parasitic : Mechanical transmission of

Eggs: Ascaris, Trichuris, Hymenolpis nana

Cysts: Entameba histolytica, Giardia


Fly control1. Environmental control

clean house with clean surroundings

2. Insecticidal control

DDT (5%), lindane(0.5%), fenthion (2.5%), malathion(5%), diazinon

(1-2%), dimethoate etc as residual sprays/ space spray/ Baits/

cords & ribbons, larvicides

3. Fly papers –resin 2lbs & castor oil 1 pint

4. Protection against flies-screening (14mesh/inch)

5. Health education


Sand fly


Phlebotominae• Like a mosquito, lb- db colour

• Tiny insects (1-3 mm)

• Smaller than mosquitoes

• Hairs on body and wings

• Wings rest over body like “angel’s” wings

• Only females suck blood


• Phlebotomus argentipes

• P. papatassi

• P. serpenti

• Sergentomyia punjabensis


Sand flies Phlebotomus spp

• Wing kept erect while resting.

• Breed in crack of soil and wall, rubbish heaps

• Move in hops rather than fly (50 yards)

• Nocturnal, during day time rest in cool damp places


Sand fly

• A pair of long, slender hairy antenna, palpi & proboscis

• 1 pair of wings & 3 pairs of legs

• Whole body is covered with hairs

• Abdomen – 10 segments


Sandfly

• In males 2 claspers are seen in

the 10th abdominal segment

• In females ,10th abdominal

segment has 2 small cerci

• Eggs – damp dark places


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Male sand fly


Female sandfly


Sand flyLeishmaniasis

– Visceral leishmaniasis (Kala azar) – P argentipes

– Cutaneous leishmaniasis (oriental sore) P papatasii, sergenti

– Mucocutenous.leishmaniasis

Transmission cyclopropagative

– Sand fly fever viral disease P papatassi, Sergentomyia

punjabensis

Mild fever like influenza propagative


Control measures

• Insecticides DDT 1-2g/m² or Lindane 0.25g/m²

DDT The residual effect is up to 1-2 years

Lindane for 3 months

• Sanitation Removal of shrubs and vegetations, Filling

up of cracks and crevices in the wall and floors,

location of cattle sheds & poultry houses


Others

• Tsetse fly/ Glossinae - Blood sucking fly, only found in Africa,

(fly belt) - Trypanosomiasis

• Black fly/ Simulum- Blood sucking fly

Vectors of Onchocerciasis

The larvae are aquatic

Control is by adding abate to river water.


Human lice


Lice• Small wingless insects, ectoparasites

• Three species that solely live on humans

– Pediculus humanus occurs in two subspecies • the head louse (P. h. capitis) and

• the body louse (P. h. corporis)

• The body louse lives mostly in the clothing and attaches its eggs to its fibers

• The third species of human lice is Phthirus pubis/ crab or pubic louse.


Head louse- Pediculus humanus capitis

• The head louse lives in the hair and attaches eggs (nits) to the hair

• Body - dorso-ventrally flattened, has head, thorax & abdomen

• Head-pointed, bears a pair of 5 segmented antennae, Simple eyes

• Sucking & piercing type

• Thorax has 3 pairs of appendages

• Last segment of appendages ends with claws


Head louse• In females last abdominal

segment is bifid

• In males last abdominal

segment is pointed not bifid.

• Males posses a U shaped organ

called aedeagus

• Aedeagus is species specific

and region specific


Pthirus pubis - Pubic Louse

• Resembles a crab, about 2mm

• Attached to pubic hair & eye lashes

• Head, thorax, abdomen

• Thorax has 3 pairs of legs & first pair is slender

• Last segment of appendages ends with claws

• Abdomen has lateral projections called lateral papillae

• Females last abd.segment is bifid

• In males last segment is not bifid.


Lice -PH importance

Disease transmission:

• Lice act as a vector for

Epidemic typhus – R prowazeki

Relapsing fever – B recurrentis

Trench fever – R quintana

• Pediculosis, dermatitis, irritation and pruritus.


Control of liceInsecticides

• Lotion with 0.5% malathion, applied and kept on for 12-24

hrs.

• Dust - carbaryl

• DDT, HCH & malathion

• Mass delousing – 50g/ person

Personal hygiene


Fleas of medical importance

• Small, bilaterally compressed, wingless insects and

got a exoskeleton and backwardly directed bristles

• Fleas found on one particular kind of animal host

will not usually seek the blood of another species


Types of fleas• Rat flea— Xenopsylla cheopis

Xenopsylla astia

Xenopsylla braziliensis

• Human fleas- Pulex irritans

• Dog and cat - Ctenocephalus canis

Ctenocephalus felis

• Sand flea – Tunga penetrans


Morphology

• Body is bilaterally compressed with head, thorax and

abdomen

• No definite demarcation

• Head

- Conical, attached to thorax without a neck

- Bears piercing and sucking mouth parts which project

downwards


• Thorax

3 segments & 3 pairs of legs

• Abdomen

- consists of 10 segments

- In males , the 7th abdominal segment dorsally has a sensory

organ - pygedium

- Anterior to this anti pygedial bristles arise directly from the

body

- Females have dark curved structure in the posterior part,

spermatheca which is used for storing sperms


Life cycle

• Metamorphosis is complete

• Eggs-larva-pupa-adult

• Adult flea seen on body of the host

• Immature stages seen on premises of host

• Takes 3 weeks to complete life cycle


x.braziliensis


X.Braziliens male BRUSH LIKE projections


X.Cheopsis female

Csh

aped


X astia


Ctenocephalides

• Ecto- parasites of dog and cat

• Characterized by black teeth like structure on head

known genal comb and another set on first thoracic

segment-pronotal comb

• If an infected flea is swallowed by man, he gets

infected


Dog flea, cat flea

Trop. rat flea

dog flea cat flea


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Ctenocephalides canis


Ctenocephalides male


X. cheopes • Main vector for plague

• Females have “C”shaped

spermatheca with uniform thickness

which is used for storing sperms

• In males spermatheca is absent, the

7th abdominal segment dorsally has a

sensory organ-pygedium

• Anterior to this is anti pygedial

bristles arise directly from the body

• 9th sternite is club shapedTONY SCARIA 2010 KMC

X. astia

• In female-spermatheca is bulbus at the middle –a shaped

• In male- anti pygedial bristles arise directly from the

body

• 9th sternite is ribbon shaped


X. brazeliensis

• In female-spermatheca is bulbus at one end –b shaped

• In male- anti pygedial bristles arise from a conical

base

• 9th sternite is absent


Diseases transmitted• Plague (bubonic)

• Endemic or murine typhus

• Chiggerosis

• Hymenolepis diminuta

• Modeof transmission

– Biting-blocked flea

– Mechanical transmission

– Faeces


Flea Indices

• General flea index

It is the average number of fleas of all species per rodent

• Specific flea index

It is the average number of fleas of each species found per

rodent

If one or more than one ,chance of plague outbreak

• Rodent infestation rate

Percentage of rodents infested with fleas


Control of fleas

• Insecticides

– DDT(5-10%),γHCH, dieldrin, diazinon(2%)

– Applied in floors & walls up to 1ft

– Applied in rat burrows

• Repellents

– Diethyl toluamide

• Rodent control


Rodent control

• Environmental sanitation

• Rodenticides

(1)Single dose - Ba carbonate and Zn phosphide

Rat killed in 8-24 hrs

(2) Multiple dose – Anticoagulants(warfarin, coumafuryl)

Rat killed in 4-10 days


• Fumigation of rat burrows using Ca cyanide, methyl bromide

etc.

30 gm of powder sprayed inside rat burrow after closing all

openings

Final opening sealed with wet mud

When powder form comes in contact with moisture it emits

cyanide gas and kills rats and fleas


Ticks• Wingless insects

• Ectoparasites of vertebrate animals

• They all suck blood

• Body is oval in shape ,and has two parts- head or Capitulum & Abdomen

• Head is at anterior end

• Has 4 pairs of appendages, no antennae

• Hard ticks are covered on their dorsal surface by a chitinous shield called scutum


Hard ticks • Males are smaller than females

• In males body is completely covered by scutum

• In females anterior 1/3rd is covered by scutum

• Vertical transmission from mother to egg


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Hard tick

Male

Female


Hard tick

Female Male


Hard tick male


Hard tick female


Female hard


Soft tick

• Abdominal wall is smooth

• Dorsal surface has small dot like mamillary tubrercles

•Small, soft and leathery cuticula,

•Mouthparts invisible from dorsal aspect

•The scutum/dorsal shield is `absent


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Soft tick


Soft and hard ticks(Agasidae/Ixodidae)


• Hard tick hard cuticle

- Babesiosis, Tularaemia

- Colorado tick fever,

- Rocky mountain spotted fever,

- Tick paralysis ,KFD

• Soft tick soft cuticle

- Relapsing fever Borrelia duttoni

- Q fever

- KFD


Mites –sarcoptes scabei

• Tiny (0.1-0.3 mm) endo-parasitic mite

• Lives in epidermal layer of skin

• Body - Capitulum & Abdomen

• Eyes antennae & wings are absent

• 2 pairs of legs in front 2 pairs behind.

• Front legs end in long tubular process-suckers

• Hind legs end in long filamentous bristles


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sarcoptes scabei

Female Male


Sarcoptes scabiei- Public health importance

• Causes human scabies

• Scabies is characterized by an intensely pruritic, erythematous, papular eruption caused by burrowing of adult female mites in upper layers of the epidermis, creating serpiginous burrows. Itching is most intense at night

• Sites of lesion – hands & wrist (63%),extensor aspect of wrist (11%),


Preferred sites interdigital, popliteal fold and groin


Cyclops • Class-crustacea

• Pear shaped semi transparent body, forked tail, 2pairs of antennae

• Large cephalothorax & slender segmented abdomen

• Single small pigmented eye

• In females 1st abd. segment has apair of ovisac


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Cyclops

FemaleMale




Cyclops (water flea)

• Vector for:

Dracunculus medinensis


Cyclops male


Helminthic egg


Spm entomology spotters (insects of public health importance)

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