Medical entomology a textbook on public health and veterinary problems caused by arthropods
Designed primarily as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate courses in Medical, Public Health and Veterinary Entomology. Giving emphasis on disease, this title includes general discussions of epidemiology, transmission, disease control, vector control and disease surveillance.
Print Book, English, cop. 2004
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Kluwer Academic Pub., Dordrecht, cop. 2004
Recueil de contributions (Descripteur de forme)
X-659 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
9781402014130, 9781402017940, 1402014139, 1402017944
492307339
1 Introduction to Medical Entomology.- 2 Introduction to Arthropods: Structure, Function and Development.- 3 Introduction to Arthropods: Systematics, Behavior and Ecology.- 4 Direct Injury: Phobias, Psychoses, Annoyance, Allergies, Toxins, Venoms and Myiasis.- 5 Arthropod Transmission of Vertebrate Parasites.- 6 The Epidemiology of Arthropodborne Diseases.- 7 Malaria, Babesiosis, Theileriosis and Related Diseases.- 8 Leishmaniasis and Trypanosomiasis.- 9 Filariasis.- 10 Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases.- 11 Arbovirus Diseases.- 12 Mechanical Transmission of Disease Agents by Arthropods.- 13 Surveillance for Arthropodborne Diseases.- 14 Management of Arthropodborne Diseases by Vector Control.- 15 Prevention and Control of Arthropodborne Diseases.- Scientific Names Index.