This text is designed primarily as a textbook for graduate and postgraduate courses in medical, public health and veterinary entomology. It emphasizes disease as opposed to arthropods and includes general discussions of epidemiology, transmission, disease control, vector control and disease 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 in two introductory chapters. Apart from (post)graduate students, healthcare professionals in the field of arthropod-borne infectious diseases as well as entolomogists interested in understanding the medical relevance of the species they study will find this book an extensive and useful guide to further their insights.
Preface vii Contributors ix Introduction to Medical Entomology 1(12) Bruce F. Eldridge John D. Edman Introduction to Arthropods: Structure, Function and Development 13(40) William S. Romoser Introduction to Arthropods: Systematics, Behavior and Ecology 53(46) William S. Romoser Direct Injury: Phobias, Psychoses, Annoyance, Allergies, Toxins, Venoms and Myiasis 99(52) Jonathan F. Day John D. Edman Sidney E. Kunz Stephen K. Wikel Arthropod Transmission of Vertebrate Parasites 151(14) John D. Edman The Epidemiology of Arthropodborne Diseases 165(22) Bruce F. Eldridge Malaria, Babesiosis, Theileriosis and Related Diseases 187(44) Thomas R. Burkot Patricia M. Graves Leishmaniasis and Trypanosomiasis 231(68) Phillip G. Lawyer Peter V. Perkins Filariasis 299(78) James B. Lok Edward D. Walker Glen A. Scoles Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases 377(38) Joseph Piesman Kenneth L. Gage Arbovirus Diseases 415(46) Bruce F. Eldridge Thomas W. Scott Jonathan F. Day Walter J. Tabachnick Mechanical Transmission of Disease Agents by Arthropods 461(54) Lane D. Foil J. Richard Gorham Surveillance for Arthropodborne Diseases 515(24) Bruce F. Eldridge Management of Arthropodborne Diseases by Vector Control 539(26) Donald E. Weidhaas Dana A. Focks Prevention and Control of Arthropodborne Diseases 565(56) James F. Sutcliffe Subject Index 621(24) Scientific Names Index 645
