Download or read book Brazilian Sand Flies written by Elizabeth F. Rangel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English-language book dedicated to Brazilian sand flies and their medical importance. No other country has so many species of these haematophagous insects as Brazil and their diversity has reached an astonishing level. The book contains comprehensive chapters, written by Brazilian experts on their regional distribution, their ecology and their importance as vectors of pathogens and parasites. Methods for sampling, processing and preserving phlebotomines are reviewed as are perspectives on surveillance and leishmaniasis vector control. A novel classification is presented whose aim is to help investigators identify the species that they are working with more efficiently.
Download or read book Infectious Diseases and Arthropods written by Jerome Goddard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of a few tropical medicine schools worldwide, current medical education programs include almost zero discussion of the interface between infectious diseases and entomology. That is why this book was initially published in the first edition almost 17 years ago. The third edition of this valuable infectious disease entomology book updates all existing chapters with the newest scientific developments described in the medical and entomological literature in addition to covering 10 entirely new topics not addressed in previous editions, which include: · arthropod identification controversies · early beginnings of public health and disease control · red-meat allergy · updates on vaccine development for dengue and malaria · discussion of Chikungunya and Zika viruses · American Boutonnneuse Fever · the newest controversies in Lyme disease · recent findings of viruses in ticks · bed bug bite reactions · Morgellons disease (an imaginary infectious disease)
Download or read book The Sand Flies Culicoides of Florida Diptera written by Franklin S. Blanton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Entomology written by B.F. Eldridge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed primarily as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate courses in Medical, Public Health and VeterinaryEntomology. Its uniqueness is that its emphasis is on disease as opposed to arthropods. It includes general discussions of epidemiology, transmission, disease control, vector control anddisease surveillance. In addition, it contains chapters oriented towards the many specific arthropod-borne diseases. Furthermore, the book discusses the many direct impacts that parasitic insects have on human and animal health. The arthropods themselves are dealt with intwo introductory chapters.
Download or read book Medical Insects and Arachnids written by R.P. Lane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprising though it seems, the world faces almost as great a threat today from arthropod-borne diseases as it did in the heady days of the 1950s when global eradication of such diseases by eliminating their vectors with synthetic insecticides, particularly DDT, seemed a real possibility. Malaria, for example, still causes tremendous morbidity and mortality throughout the world, especially in Africa. Knowledge of the biology of insect and arachnid disease vectors is arguably more important now than it has ever been. Biological research directed at the development of better methods of control becomes even more important in the light of the partial failure of many control schemes that are based on insecticide- although not all is gloom, since basic biological studies have contributed enormously to the outstanding success of international control programmes such as the vast Onchocerciasis Control Programme in West Africa. It is a sine qua non for proper understanding of the epidemiology and successful vector control of any human disease transmitted by an arthropod that all concerned with the problem - medical entomologist, parasitologist, field technician - have a good basic understanding of the arthropod's biology. Knowledge will be needed not only of its direct relationship to any parasite or pathogen that it transmits but also of its structure, its life history and its behaviour - in short, its natural history. Above all, it will be necessary to be sure that it is correctly identified.
Download or read book Rivers of Sand written by Josh Greenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers of Sand is an exploration of the unique techniques needed to fish the waters of Michigan and the Great Lakes region, and a discussion of (and paean to) the region itself.
Download or read book Systematics of the Sheath Nematodes of the Superfamily Hemicycliophoroidea written by J.J. Chitambar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheath nematodes belonging to the superfamily Hemicycliophoroidea are unique amongst all plant parasitic nematodes known to man due to the presence of an extra cuticular covering or sheath over the inner cuticle and body of all juvenile and adult life stages. These plant-parasitic nematodes include species of agricultural and quarantine importance. In Systematics of the Sheath Nematodes of the Superfamily Hemicycliophoroidea John Chitambar and Sergei Subbotin provide a detailed review of the taxonomy and diagnosis of the superfamily, its member genera and 153 related species based on their morphological and molecular analyses, as well as a further understanding of the relationships within the superfamily using molecular phylogenetics. In addition, Chitambar and Subbotin also give detailed information on the global distribution, biology, host-parasite relationships and ecology of sheath nematodes.
Download or read book Determining discriminating concentrations of insecticides for monitoring resistance in sand flies written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The document presents outcome of a WHO multi-centre study (2020–2022) performed by eight laboratories in different WHO regions and the WHO expert consultations that made recommendations to WHO on insecticide discriminating concentrations (DCs) for monitoring resistance in sand fly vectors of leishmaniases. It describes use of the WHO bottle bioassay as a new method for testing susceptibility of sand flies to insecticides that are not suitable for impregnation on filter papers and makes recommendations to WHO on monitoring of insecticide resistance in field populations of sand flies. It also proposes further research to test the new DCs for sand flies in other settings and conditions and to collect evidence from the national disease control programmes and share them with WHO for further assessment and revision of the DCs if required. The current edition of the WHO manual for monitoring insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors and selecting appropriate interventions will be revised using the recommendations made to WHO including for the new DCs for sand flies. The report will be useful to the national vector-borne disease control programmes and the research community for resistance monitoring, and to academia, the pesticide regulatory agencies and the pesticide industry for further innovation in this area and to address the research questions. Please send your suggestions and comments to [email protected] indicating the title of the report and the relevant section and page.
Download or read book American sand flies Diptera written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The West Indian Sandflies of the Genus Culicoides Diptera Ceratopogonidae written by Willis Wagner Wirth and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biology of Infectious Disease written by Michael G. Milgroom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a broad introduction to the biological processes underlying infectious diseases in a range of hosts and pathogens. The text covers topics at all levels of biological organization, from the molecular and cellular level, organismal level, and population and ecosystem level, and goes well beyond infectious diseases of humans. The details of how microbes interact with their hosts are unique for each interaction, but emphasis is on the common principles of host-pathogen interactions that result in disease. Biology of Infectious Disease: From Molecules to Ecosystems is aimed at undergraduate and early graduate-level students in biology or public health, including pre-medical and pre-public-health students, who are interested in a broad introduction to infectious disease but do not have any previous background in microbiology or immunology.
Download or read book Current Topics in Vector Research written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Topics in Vector Research is based on the premise that to un derstand the whole, one must first understand the component parts and how they interact. Here in Volume 4, as well as in future volumes, vector, pathogen, and host will be treated both individually and as integral parts of multifaceted transmission systems. It is our intention to present up-to date, coherent syntheses of the latest findings in vector research, suggest promising frontiers for future research, and call attention to possible prac tical applications of our present understandings of pathogen-vector-host interactions. To realize our goals, we invite world-renowned, veteran sci entists as well as neophytes to report on their individual areas of expertise. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to draw conclusions and pro pose hypotheses that stimulate additional thinking and research or oth erwise further our understanding of vector transmission cycles and how such cycles might be interrupted. It is our hope that readers will agree that we are serving these objectives and creating a milieu for specialists and generalists in vector research to maintain rapport and understanding.
Download or read book Emerging Infectious Diseases written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When vectors collide with cultures anthropo vector ecology who is controlling who written by Scientific committee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th European Society for Vector Ecology Conference 2016 wants to draw attention to the impact and importance of vectors and vector-borne diseases on landscapes inhabited by human beings and how to make this paradigm most effective to benefit public health. Session subjects are: invasive species: ecology and their potential role as vectors; citizen science and social approaches on vector control; epidemiology of vector-borne diseases and their vectors; ecology and behaviour of vectors; emerging vector-borne diseases and risk assessment; vector-pathogens interactions; taxonomy, systematic and phylogeny of vectors; and advance technologies on vector control.
Download or read book Issues in Medical Anthropology and Forensics 2011 Edition written by and published by ScholarlyEditions. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues in Medical Anthropology and Forensics: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Medical Anthropology and Forensics. The editors have built Issues in Medical Anthropology and Forensics: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Medical Anthropology and Forensics in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Medical Anthropology and Forensics: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.
Download or read book Biomarkers in Leishmaniasis written by Javier Moreno and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physician s Guide to Arthropods of Medical Importance written by Jerome Goddard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2013 BMA Medical Book Awards Winner As the importance of medical entomology increases, access to up-to-date, authoritative information also becomes increasingly critical. For nearly 20 years, the award-winning, bestselling Physician's Guide to Arthropods of Medical Importance has established itself as a standard reference in doctors' offices and emergency rooms. Now in its sixth edition, this book maintains its status as the ultimate easy-to-use guide for physicians and other health care providers, public health officials, and pest control professionals who need to identify arthropods, the common signs and symptoms of vector-borne diseases, and the recommended forms of treatment. The book begins by describing the pathologic conditions caused by arthropods and the principles of treating those conditions. It elucidates the rationale behind the various treatment regimes and the underlying principles of controlling the immune response. It covers identification of arthropods and common signs and symptoms of vector-borne disease. The book then provides an alphabetical arrangement of arthropods of medical importance with clearly marked subheadings for easy information access. The author concludes with personal protection methods against arthropods. Now with color pictures throughout, the Sixth Edition’s chapters have been updated with the latest information and current references. Older photographs and line drawings have been replaced with new and improved versions, and the interactive CD-ROM has also been updated with more pictures and videos as well as helpful identification aids, additional reading materials, and web links. This work is the most up-to-date reference on arthropods available. Jerome Goddard recently appeared on The Colbert Report.
