Emerging infectious diseases continue to increase both in incidence and
geographic distribution worldwide. Many of these diseases are
vector-borne, including malaria (re-emerging), West Nile virus, Lyme
disease, American boutonneuse fever (a new rickettsial disease), and
others. For example, Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne disease, recently
caused over 150,000 cases on one small island in the Indian Ocean. Many
scientists fear that Chikungunya will soon spread to the New World in a
manner similar to WNV. This book will be a succinct reference for the
very important interface between infectious diseases and medical
entomology.
Jerome Goddard summarizes the latest thinking about the biological,
entomological, and clinical aspects of the major vector-borne diseases
around the world. The book covers mosquito-, tick-, and flea-borne
diseases, and a variety of other miscellaneous vector-borne diseases,
including Chagas' disease, African sleeping sickness, onchocerciasis,
scrub typhus, and louse-borne infections. The author provides for each
disease a description of the vector involved, notes on its biology and
ecology, distribution maps, and general clinical guidelines for
treatment and control.
This new edition is updated with the latest research findings and
current theories about infectious disease and arthropods. Numerous new,
high quality line drawings and photographs of offending arthropods and
the lesions they cause are also included. At a time when vector-borne
diseases have increased their spread, Infectious Diseases and
Arthropods provides physicians, infectious disease specialists,
medical entomologists, and public health officials with an up-to-date,
readily accessible, gold-standard reference source.
