Population biology of vector-borne diseases /
Population Biology of Vector-Borne Diseases is the first comprehensive survey of this rapidly developing field. The chapter topics provide an up-to-date presentation of classical concepts, reviews of emerging trends, synthesis of existing knowledge, and a prospective agenda for future research.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Current topics in the population biology of infectious diseases
- Heterogeneity, stochasticity and complexity in the dynamics and control of mosquito-borne pathogens
- Seven challenges for spatial analyses of vector-borne diseases
- Infectious disease forecasting for public health
- Force of infection and variation in outbreak size in a multi-species host-pathogen system: West Nile virus in New York City
- Environmental drivers of vector-borne diseases
- Population biology of Culicoides-borne viruses of livestock in Europe
- Ecological interactions influencing the emergence, abundance and human exposure to tick-borne pathogens
- Carry-over effects of the larval environment in mosquito-borne disease systems
- Incorporating vector ecology and life history into disease transmission models: insights form tsetse (Glossina spp.)
- Mosquito-virus interactions
- Kindling, logs, and coals: the dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas Disease in Arequipa, Peru
- Gut microbiome assembly and function in mosquitoes
- Direct and indirect social drivers and impacts of vector-borne diseases
- Vector control, optimal control and vector-borne disease dynamics.