Arthropod borne diseases. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carlos Brisola Marcondes, editor.
• Editors: Marcondes, Carlos Brisola
• Contents: 1.General comments and importance of arthropod-related diseases.-2. Epidemiology of vector-borne diseases.-3. Blood sucking insects and history.-4. Blood sucking, vector-parasite relationship and transmission of diseases.-5. Generalities on arboviruses.-6. Yellow fever.-7. Dengue.-8. Other flaviviruses.-9. Togaviridae.-10. Bunyaviruses.-11. Plague and tularemia.-12. Rickettsial infections, Bartonella infections and coxiellosis.-13. Borreliosis: Lyme disease and relapsing fever.-14. Ehrlichiosis.-15. Anaplasmosis.-16. Leishmaniasis.-17. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease).-18. Sleeping sickness, nagana.-19. Other trypanosomiasis.-20. Malaria.-21. Babesiosis.-22. Theileriosis.-23. Hepatozoonosis.-24. Lymphatic filariasis.-25. Onchocerciasis.-26. Mansonelliasis.-27. Dirofilariasis.-28. Loiasis.-29. Thelaziosis (canine eye-worm).-30. Habronemosis.-31. Flies.-32. Sucking and biting lice.-33. Fleas.-34. Diseases caused by Acari (ticks and mites).-35. Other irritating Arthropods (beetles, bugs, centipedes etc.).-36. Allergy to bites of hematophagous arthropods.-37. Geoprocessing and expected distribution of diseases (including deforestation, global warming and other changes).-38. Wolbachia: influence on pathogeny, treatment and control of arthropod borne diseases.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (645 pages)
• Subjects: 616.9; Medicine; Arthropod vectors; Communicable diseases -- Transmission; Arthropod vectors; Communicable diseases -- Transmission; Arthropod Vectors; Communicable Diseases; Arbovirus Infections; Parasitic Diseases; Medical -- Parasitology; Medical -- Pathology; Science -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Entomology; Medical -- Veterinary Medicine -- General; Medical parasitology; Pathology; Insects (entomology); Veterinary medicine; Emerging infectious diseases; Medical parasitology; Pathology; Entomology; Veterinary medicine; Medical -- Infectious Diseases; Infectious & contagious diseases
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319138848
• Related ISBNs: 9783319138831
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