Medical entomology for students

• Main Author: Service, M. W. author
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
• Edition: FIFTH EDITION
• Subjects: Insects > pathogenicity; Arachnid Vectors; Communicable Diseases > transmission; Insect Vectors > transmission; Arachnida > pathogenicity
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Despite numerous scientific investigations on vector-borne human infections such as malaria, Lyme disease and typhus these diseases continue to threaten human health. Understanding the role of vectors in disease transmission, and the most appropriate control strategies, is therefore essential. This...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to mosquitoes (Culicidae)
• Anopheline mosquitoes (Anophelinae)
• Culicine mosquitoes (Culicinae)
• Black flies (Simuliidae)
• Phlebotomine sand flies (Phlebotominae)
• Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
• Horse flies (Tabanidae)
• Tsetse flies (Glossinidae)
• House flies and stable flies (Muscidae) and latrine flies (Fanniidae)
• Flies and myiasis
• Fleas (Siphonaptera)
• Sucking lice (Anoplura)
• Bedbugs (Cimicidae)
• Triatomine bugs (Triatominae)
• Cockroaches (Blattaria)
• Soft ticks (Argasidae)
• Hard ticks (Ixodidae)
• Scabies mites (sarcoptidae)
• Scrub typhus mites (Trombiculidae)
• Miscellaneous mites.