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Medical entomology : a textbook on public health and veterinary problems caused by arthropods /

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Veterinary medicine.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eldridge, Bruce F., Edman, John D. (John David)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004.
Edition:Revised edition.
Subjects:
Arthropod Vectors.
Parasitic Diseases > epidemiology.
Arthropods.
Parasitic Diseases, Animal.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to medical entomology
  • Introduction to arthropods : structure, function and development
  • Introduction to arthropods : systematics, behavior and ecology
  • Direct injury : phobias, psychoses, annoyance, allergies, toxins, venoms and myiasis
  • Arthropod transmission of vertebrate parasites
  • The epidemiology of arthropodborne diseases
  • Malaria, babesiosis, theileriosis and related diseases
  • Leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis
  • Filariasis
  • Bacterial and rickettsial diseases
  • Arbovirus diseases
  • Mechanical transmission of disease agents by arthropods
  • Surveillance for arthropodborne diseases
  • Management of arthropodborne diseases by vector control
  • Prevention and control of arthropodborne diseases