Description
Book SynopsisArthropod transmitted infections continue to be a front-line issue in all regions of the world. Understanding the insects that transmit diseases, the mechanisms of infection and the resulting diseases is vital to doctors, veterinarians, public health workers and disease control agencies. This major reference examines the biology, classification and control of arthropods that cause disease in animals and humans. The morphology, taxonomy and phylogeny of fleas, flies, lice, mites, midges, mosquitoes and ticks are described, with descriptions of their medical and veterinary significance, diseases they cause, insect distribution and global disease spread. Updated, developed and reworked from Doug Kettle's seminal Medical and Veterinary Entomology, this major new reference presents vital information in encyclopedia format, with alphabetical entries and an extensive index to make key facts easy to find. This new treatment of the subject provides accessible content and up-to-date research, illustrated by line drawings and colour photographs.
Table of Contents1: Preface 2: Introduction - Part 1 3: Introduction - Part 2 4: Ants 5: Bed bugs 6: Bees and wasps 7: Beetles 8: Biting midges 9: Black flies 10: Blow flies and Screw-worm flies 11: Butterflies and Moths (caterpillars) 12: Centipedes 13: Cockroaches 14: Eye flies 15: Fleas 16: Flesh flies 17: Horn flies 18: Horse flies 19: House flies and other non-biting (muscid) flies 20: Human bot fly 21: Keds and Louse flies 22: Kissing bugs 23: Lice (chewing) 24: Lice (sucking) 25: Millipedes 26: Mites 27: Mosquitoes 28: Non-biting midges 29: Nasal bot flies 30: Sand flies 31: Scorpions 32: Spiders 33: Stable flies 34: Stomach bot fliesTicks (hard) 35: Ticks (soft) 36: Tsetse flies 37: Tumbu fly 38: Warble flies
