Overview
- Compact, easy-to-use reference
- Summarizes the latest thinking about the biological, entomological, and clinical aspects of the major vector-borne diseases around the world
- Includes a description of the vector involved, notes on its biology and ecology, distribution maps, and general clinical guidelines for treatment and control
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Infectious Disease (ID)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Arthropods and Human Health
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Other Arthropod-Caused or -Related Problems
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About this book
In this second edition of Infectious Diseases and Arthropods, Jerome Goddard summarizes the latest thinking about the biological, entomological, and clinical aspects of the major vector-borne diseases around the world. His book covers mosquito-, tick-, and flea-borne diseases, and a variety of other miscellaneous vector-borne diseases, including Chagas' disease, African sleeping sickness, onchocerciasis, scrub typhus, and louse-borne infections. The author provides for each disease a description of the vector involved, notes on its biology and ecology, distribution maps, and general clinical guidelines for treatment and control. Among the diseases fully discussed are malaria, dengue and yellow fevers, lymphatic filariasis, spotted fevers, ehrlichiosis, lyme disease, tularemia, and plague. Other arthropod-caused or related problems-such as myiasis, imaginary insect or mite infestations, and arthropod stings and bites-are also treated.
At a time when vector-borne diseases are spreading ever more widely, Infectious Diseases and Arthropods provides physicians, infectious disease specialists, medical entomologists, and public health officials with an up-to-date, readily accessible, gold-standard reference source.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infectious Diseases and Arthropods
Editors: Jerome Goddard
Series Title: Infectious Disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-400-5
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60327-399-2Published: 14 October 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60327-400-5Published: 06 January 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 251
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, Virology, Epidemiology, Tropical Medicine