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Medical and veterinary entomology /

"The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This fully revised third edition continues the fo...

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Other Authors: Mullen, Gary R. (Editor), Durden, Lance A., (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2019]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Insects as carriers of disease.
Arthropod vectors.
Medical parasitology.
Veterinary entomology.
Insect Vectors.
Arthropod Vectors.
Disease Reservoirs.
Entomology > methods.
Insecta > pathogenicity.
Zoonoses.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Electronic books.
Online Access:ScienceDirect
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Morphological adaptations of parasitic arthropods
  • Arthropod toxins and venoms
  • Epidemiology of vector-borne diseases
  • Forensic entomology
  • Cockroaches (blattaria)
  • Lice (Phthiraptera)
  • True bugs (Hemiptera)
  • Beetles (Coleoptera)
  • Fleas (Siphonaptera
  • Flies (Diptera)
  • Phlebotomine sand flies and moth flies (Psychodidae)
  • Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
  • Black flies (Simuliidae)
  • Mosquitoes (Culicidae)
  • Horse flies and deer flies (Tabanidae)
  • Muscid flies (Muscidae)
  • Tsetse flies (Glossinidae)
  • Myiasis (Muscoidea, Oestroidea)
  • Louse flies, keds, and bat flies (Hippoboscoidea)
  • Moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera)
  • Ants, wasps, and bees (Hymenoptera)
  • Scorpions (Scorpiones)
  • Solpugids (Solifugae)
  • Spiders (Araneae)
  • Mites (Acari)
  • Ticks (Ixodida)
  • Molecular tools used in medical and veterinary entomology
  • Appendix: arthropod-related viruses of medical and veterinary importance.

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