Mike Service

Medical Entomology for Students

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An updated edition of this popular textbook, covering recognition, biology, ecology and medical importance of the arthropods that affect human health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781107668188
• ISBN-10: 1107668182
• Artikelnr.: 34884303

Autorenporträt

Mike Service is a world authority on medical entomology and has over 50 years experience of research and teaching in the field. He is Emeritus Professor of Medical Entomology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In 1997 he was awarded the Sir Rickard Christophers medal by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and in 2002 the Harry Hoogstraal Medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, for research on medical vectors.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
Preface to the fourth edition
Preface to the fifth edition
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to mosquitoes (Culicidae)
2. Anopheline mosquitoes (Anophelinae)
3. Culicine mosquitoes (Culicinae)
4. Black flies (Simuliidae)
5. Phlebotomine sand flies (Phlebotominae)
6. Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
7. Horse flies (Tabanidae)
8. Tsetse flies (Glossinidae)
9. House flies and stable flies (Muscidae) and latrine flies (Fanniidae)
10. Flies and myiasis
11. Fleas (Siphonaptera)
12. Sucking lice (Anoplura)
13. Bedbugs (Cimicidae)
14. Triatomine bugs (Triatominae)
15. Cockroaches (Blattaria)
16. Soft ticks (Argasidae)
17. Hard ticks (Ixodidae)
18. Scabies mites (Sarcoptidae)
19. Scrub typhus mites (Trombiculidae)
20. Miscellaneous mites
Appendix: names of some chemicals and microbials used in vector control
Glossary of common terms relevant to medical entomology
Select bibliography
Index.