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  title info:
    title: Dust Mites
  name:
    name part: Colloff, Matthew J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 583 p. online resource.
  abstract: Conservatively, at least 100 million people are affected by house dust mite allergy worldwide, manifesting itself as asthma, rhinitis or atopic dermatitis. Despite the growing recognition of this major public health problem, and commitment of considerable research resources, there is still no simple, effective, generally-applicable strategy for dust mite control. The reasons for this are complex, but a contributing factor remains some important knowledge gaps and misconceptions regarding aspects of biology and ecology of dust mites. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive reference work for all readers with an involvement or interest in house dust mite research and management, incorporating for the first time in a single volume the topics of systematics and identification, physiology, ecology, allergen biochemistry and molecular biology, epidemiology, mite control and allergen avoidance. It is hoped the book will help spread the message that studies of the biology and ecology of house dust mites should be regarded within the context of allergic disease rather than as ends in themselves, and that approaches to mite control in clinical management are subject to the same series of ecological rules as any other major problem in pest management.
  table of contents: Identification and taxonomy, classification and phylogeny -- Physiology and internal anatomy -- Water balance -- Ecology -- Development, life histories and population dynamics -- Methods in house dust mite ecology and biology -- Dust mite allergens -- Allergy and epidemiology -- Control of dust mites and allergen avoidance -- Conclusions and reflections.
  note: by Matthew J. Colloff.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789048122240
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2224-0
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