Jerome Goddard

Infectious Diseases and Arthropods (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

With the exception of a few tropical medicine schools worldwide, current medical education programs include almost zero discussion of the interface between infectious diseases and entomology. That is why this book was initially published in the first edition almost 17 years ago. The third edition of this valuable infectious disease entomology book updates all existing chapters with the newest scientific developments described in the medical and entomological literature in addition to covering 10 entirely new topics not addressed in previous editions, which include:

· arthropod identification controversies

· early beginnings of public health and disease control

· red-meat allergy

· updates on vaccine development for dengue and malaria

· discussion of Chikungunya and Zika viruses

· American Boutonnneuse Fever

· the newest controversies in Lyme disease

· recent findings of viruses in ticks

· bed bug bite reactions

· Morgellons disease (an imaginary infectious disease)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319758749
• Artikelnr.: 52524119

Autorenporträt

Jerome Goddard, Ph.D. is a medical entomologist currently located at Mississippi State University who is known for research on a number of medically important arthropods, most notably ticks, mosquitoes, and bed bugs. Prior to coming to Mississippi State, Dr. Goddard was an Air Force medical entomologist for 3 years and then State Medical Entomologist for the Mississippi Department of Health for 20 years. After Hurricane Katrina (2005), Dr. Goddard was the health department official responsible for the mosquito and vector control program along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He is the author of over 200 scientific articles and a medical textbook used by physicians, which won "Highly Commended" in 2003 in the British Medical Association's Best Medical Book of the Year competition. Over the last two decades, Dr. Goddard has served as an educational resource concerning medically-important arthropods to a U.S. Congressional Committee, in various newspapers and magazines such as Reader's Digest, and on television programs such as The Learning Channel ("Living with Bugs") and the Colbert Report.

Inhaltsangabe

I Arthropods and Human Health.- Arthropods and Health.- Classification of Arthropods.- Medical Importance of Arthropods.- Dynamics of Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- Mechanical vs Biological Transmission of Pathogens.- Vector Competence.- II Major Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- Mosquito-Borne Diseases.- Basic Mosquito Biology.- Malaria.- Mosquito-Transmitted Encephalitis Viruses.- Dengue Fever.- Yellow Fever (YF).- Lymphatic Filariasis.- Other Human-Infesting Filarial Worms.- Tick-Borne Diseases.- Basic Tick Biology.- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF).- Other Spotted Fever Rickettsioses.- Ehrlichiosis.- Lyme Disease.- Tularemia.- Human Babesiosis.- Viruses Transmitted by Ticks.- Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF).- Tick Paralysis.- Flea-Borne Diseases.- Basic Flea Biology.- Plague.- Murine Typhus.- Cat-Scratch Disease (CSD).- Sand Fly-Transmitted Diseases.- Basic Sand Fly Biology.- Leishmaniasis.- Other Sand Fly-Transmitted Diseases.- Miscellaneous Vector-Borne Diseases.- Chagas' Disease.- African Sleeping Sickness.- Onchocerciasis.- Scrub Typhus (ST).- Louse-Borne Infections.- Bed Bugs - Do They Transmit Disease Agents?- Introduction and Bed Bug Biology.- Bed Bugs and Disease Transmission.- Why Mosquitoes and Other Arthropods Cannot Transmit HIV.- Brown Recluse Bites: Facts and Fables.- Introduction and Biology.- Facts and Fables about Brown Recluse Bites.- Treatment of Bites.- Fire Ant Attacks on Humans.- The Problem.- Effects of the Venom.- Infectious Complications.- Protecting Patients in Health Care Facilities from Ant Attacks.- Medical Conditions Caused by Arthropod Stings or Bites.- Introduction and Medical Significance.- Pathogenesis.- Clues to Recognizing Insect Bites or Stings.- Summary and Conclusions.- Myiasis.- Introduction and Medical Significance.-Contributing Factors.- Myiasis in Clinical Practice.- Prevention, Treatment, and Control.- Imaginary Insect or Mite Infestations.- Introduction and Medical Significance.- Clinical Aspects and ContributingFactors.- Differential Diagnosis.- Treatment Strategies.- Appendix A: Signs and Symptoms of Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- Appendix B: Diagnostic Tests Used in Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- Agglutination.- Complement Fixation.- Direct Fluorescent Antibody.- Enzyme Immunoassay (EIA).- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA).- Hemagglutination Inhibition (HI).- Indirect Fluorescent Antibody (IFA).- Leishmanin (Montenegro Test).- Mazzotti.- Neutralization.- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).- Index.

Rezensionen

From the reviews of the second edition: "In this book Jerome Goddard, a medical entomologist, gives a brief summary of many ... conditions and the vectors that transmit them. ... I think this is a useful book ... and I shall use it as a quick reference source when I need to refresh my memory on many of the conditions described. It is also readable and accessible for the non-specialist, potentially suiting clinicians, nurse specialists, and environmental health practitioners." (Ian F. Burgess, Public Health, Vol. 123, September/October, 2009) "Sections dealing with differential diagnosis for some infections, and treatment is dealt with briefly; too briefly to be useful to physicians ... . 'to provide physicians as well as entomologists and other interested parties with a reference on the biological and entomological aspects of infectious diseases'. ... interests of most physicians and entomologists. ... I applaud the original articles as a means of informing a more general audience of physicians and entomologists ... this book meets it objectives as a work of reference." (Harold Townson, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 103, October, 2009)