Arthropods as Vectors of Emerging Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mehlhorn, Heinz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Parasitology Research Monographs, 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Parasitology.; Health promotion.; Veterinary medicine.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Veterinary Medicine.

Without a doubt the recently accelerating globalization supports the import of agents of disease into countries where they never had been or where they had long since been eradicated, leading to a false sense of living on a “safe island.” These newly imported or reintroduced diseases – called “emerg...

Table of Contents:

• Culicid Mosquitoes as Vectors of Disease Agents in Europe
• Exotic Mosquitoes Conquer the World
• Future Strategies for European Pest Management
• Assessing Diversity and Abundance of Vector Populations at a National Scale: Example of Culicoides Surveillance in France after a Bluetongue Virus Emergence
• Bluetongue Disease: An Analysis of the Epidemic in Germany 2006-2009
• Impact of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITN) on Insects of Medical Veterinary Relevance
• The Changing Distribution Patterns of Ticks (Ixodida) in Europe in Relation to Emerging Tick-borne Diseases
• The Huge Risk due to Hyalomma Ticks
• Flies as Vector of Microorganisms Potentially Inducing Severe Diseases in Humans and Animals
• Flies as Vector of Parasites Potentially Inducing Severe Diseases in Humans and Animals
• Lice as Vectors of Bacterial Diseases
• Triatomines as Vectors of American Trypanosomiasis
• Fleas as Underestimated Vectors of Agents of Diseases
• Marine Crustaceans as Potential Hosts and Vectors for Metazoan Parasites
• Spotted Fever Rickettsiae and Rickettsioses in Germany.