Disease transmission by insects : its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Busvine, James Ronald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1993]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Discovery of unsuspected dangers
  • How arthropods came to transmit human diseases
  • From speculation to certainity: the incrimination of the disease carriers
  • Elucidation of particular diseases
  • Diseases transmitted by mosquitos
  • Filariasis
  • Malaria
  • Yellow fever
  • Dengue
  • Haemorrhagic dengue
  • Miscellaneous mosquito-borne arboviruses
  • Diseases spread by higher diptera
  • Sleeping sickness
  • Diseases spread by houseflies
  • Diseases spread by eye flies
  • Diseases transmitted by biting midges
  • Sandfly-borne diseases
  • Disease transmitted by blackflies
  • Diseases transmitted by insects other than diptera
  • Plague
  • Louse-borne typhus
  • Brill-Zinsser disease
  • Louse-borne relapsing fever
  • Flea-borne murine typhus
  • Chagas' disease
  • Diseases transmitted by mites and ticks
  • Diseases due to spirochaetes
  • Tick-borne relapsing fever
  • Lyme disease
  • Diseases due to rickettsia
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  • Fievre bouteneuse and tick typhus
  • Tsutsugamushi (scrub typhus)
  • Rickettsial pox
  • Q fever
  • Diseases due to viruses
  • Colorado tick fever
  • Tick-borne encephalitides
  • Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
  • Kyasanur forest disease
  • Tick-borne bacterial disease
  • Tularaemia
  • Some concluding remarks regarding the transmission of arthropod-borne diseases
  • Tribute to the pioneers
  • Possibility of the emergence of new arthropod-borne diseases
  • Control measures pre-DDT
  • Early responses to new opportunities
  • Control measures during the inter-war period
  • Control of various insect-borne diseases
  • Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes
  • Control of diseases spread by higher diptera
  • Diseases spread by biting midges
  • Diseases transmitted by insects other than diptera
  • Impact of the new pesticides
  • New kinds of insecticide
  • Formulation and application method
  • Major problems arising from the use of the new insecticides
  • Advances in the control of various insect-borne diseases
  • Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes
  • Control of diseases spread by higher diptera
  • Diseases transmitted by biting midges
  • Diseases transmitted by insects other than diptera
  • Modern problems and possibilities
  • Present predicament
  • Current options for vector control
  • Human factors in vector control