Disease transmission by insects : its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it /
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1993]
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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