Biology of disease vectors /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier Academic Press,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=195524 |
Table of Contents:
- The arthropods
- Evolution of arthropod disease vectors
- Mites and disease
- Ticks, the ixodida
- Kissing bugs and bedbugs, the heteroptera
- Lice, the phthiraptera
- Fleas, the siphonaptera
- Introduction to the diptera
- Mosquitoes, the culicidae
- The bitting midges, the ceratopogonidae (diptera)
- Black flies, the simuliidae
- Phlebotamine sand flies, the psychodiade
- Tsetse flies, the glossinidae, and transmission of the African trypanosomes
- Natural cycles of vector-borne pathogens
- Population biology as a tool to study vector-borne diseases
- Use of geographic information system methods in the study of vector-borne diseases
- Invasive species and emerging vector-borne infections
- Molecular techniques for epidemiology and the evolution of arthropod-borne pathogens
- Surveillance of vector-borne diseases
- Vector olfaction and behavior
- The adult midgut: structure and function
- The peritrophic matrix of hematophagous insects
- Vector nutrition and energy metabolism
- Mosquito endocrinology
- Vitellogenesis of disease vectors, from physiology to genes
- Osmotic and ionic regulation by mosquitoes
- Immune responses of vectors
- Blood-feeding arthropod salivary glands and saliva
- Systematic relationships among disease vectors
- Genetics of vector competence
- Genome evolution in mosquitoes
- Population genetics of disease vectors
- Molecular taxonomy and systematics of arthropod vectors
- A brief introduction to molecular biology, genomics, and transmission of vector-borne pathogens.
- Cultured cells as a tool of analysis of gene expression
- Genomics and gene expression in vectors
- Analysis of stage- and tissue-specific gene expression in insect vectors
- Gene expression in acarines
- Virus-induced, transient expression of genes in mosquitoes
- Stable transformation of vector species
- Chemical control of vectors and mechanisms of resistance
- Environmental management for vector control
- Biological control of mosquitoes
- Genetic control of vectors
- Immunological control of vectors
- Transgenic mosquitoes and DNA research safeguards
- Gene bank data for hamatophagous arthropods
- The containment of arthropod vectors
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infestation of ticks in the laboratory setting
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of human body lice
- Care, maintenance, and handling of infected triatomines
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of fleas (siphonaptera)
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of mosquitoes
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of biting midges
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of phlebotomine sand flies
- Care, maintenance, and experimental infection of tsetse flies.