Disease transmission by insects : its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it /

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Author / Creator:Busvine, James Ronald
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1993.
Description:xii, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1616742
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ISBN:3540554572 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
0387554572 (New York : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [344]-361).

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505 0 0 |g Pt. 1.  |t The Discovery of Unsuspected Dangers --  |t Prologue: How Arthropods Came to Transmit Human Diseases.  |g Sect. 1.  |t The Insect Vectors.  |t From Speculation to Certainty: The Incrimination of the Disease Carriers.  |t Early Indications Based on Circumstantial Evidence.  |t Experimental Proof of Insect Transmission.  |t Discovery of Pathogens and Their Association with Some Insects.  |t The Elucidation of Particular Diseases.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Mosquitoes.  |t Filariasis.  |t Malaria.  |t Yellow Fever.  |t Dengue.  |t Haemorrhagic Dengue.  |t Miscellaneous Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses.  |t Diseases Spread by Higher Diptera.  |t Sleeping Sickness.  |t Diseases Spread by Houseflies.  |t Diseases Spread by Eye Flies.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Biting Midges.  |t Sandfly-Borne Diseases.  |t Disease Transmitted by Blackflies.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Insects Other than Diptera.  |t Plague.  |t Louse-Borne Typhus.  |t The Brill-Zinsser Disease.  |t Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever.  |t Flea-Borne Murine Typhus.  |t Chagas' Disease.  |g Sect. 2.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Mites and Ticks.  |t Some Differences.  |t Diseases Due to Spirochaetes.  |t Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever.  |t Lyme Disease.  |t Diseases Due to Rickettsia.  |t Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.  |t Fievre Bouteneuse and Tick Typhus.  |t Tsutsugamushi (Scrub Typhus).  |t Rickettsial Pox.  |t Q Fever.  |t Diseases Due to Viruses.  |t Colorado Tick Fever.  |t Tick-Borne Encephalitides.  |t Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever.  |t Kyasanur Forest Disease.  |t A Tick-Borne Bacterial Disease.  |t Tularaemia.  |t Some Concluding Remarks Regarding the Transmission of Arthropod-Borne Diseases.  |t A Tribute to the Pioneers.  |t The Possibility of the Emergence of New Arthropod-Borne Diseases --  |g Pt. 2.  |t Control Measures Pre-DDT.  |t Early Responses to New Opportunities.  |t Control Measures During the Inter-War Period.  |t The Control of Various Insect-Borne Diseases.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Mosquitoes.  |t Malaria Control up to the First World War.  |t Anti-Malarial Measures During the Inter-War Period.  |t Yellow Fever: Control Measures Prior to the First World War.  |t Measures Against Yellow Fever in the Inter-War Period.  |t Control of Dengue.  |t Control of Filariasis.  |t Control of Diseases Spread by Higher Diptera.  |t Sleeping Sickness: Control up to the First World War.  |t Control of Sleeping Sickness in the Inter-War Period.  |t Control of Housefly-Borne Diseases up to the First World War.  |t Housefly Control During the Inter-War Years.  |t Control of Diseases Due to Eye Flies.  |t Diseases Spread by Biting Midges.  |t Control of Sandfly-Borne Diseases.  |t Control of Onchocerciasis.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Insects Other than Diptera.  |t Plague Control Prior to the First World War.  |t Measures Against Plague in the Inter-War Years.  |t Chagas' Disease.  |t Typhus Epidemics and Attempts to Control Them During the First World War.  |t Typhus Control up to and During the Second World War --  |g Pt. 3.  |t The Impact of the New Pesticides.  |t New Kinds of Insecticide.  |t Common Names of the New Insecticides.  |t DDT: The Pioneer.  |t Other Synthetic Chlorinated Insecticides.  |t Anti-Cholinesterase Insecticides.  |t Synthetic Pyrethroids.  |t Formulation and Application Methods.  |t Formulation.  |t Dissemination of Liquid Formulations.  |t Insecticide Application Methods in Relation to Vector Control.  |t Major Problems Arising from the Use of the New Insecticides.  |t Insecticide Resistance.  |t Toxic Hazards of Insecticides.  |t Advances in the Control of Various Insect-Borne Diseases.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Mosquitoes.  |t Malaria.  |t Mosquito-Transmitted Virus Diseases.  |t Yellow Fever.  |t Various Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses.  |t Control of Filariasis.  |t Control of Diseases Spread by Higher Diptera.  |t Sleeping Sickness.  |t Control of Diseases Spread by Houseflies.  |t Control of Diseases Spread by Other Non-Biting Flies.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Biting Midges.  |t Control of Onchocerciasis.  |t Control of Diseases Spread by Sandflies: Leishmaniasis, Sandfly Fever, Bartonellosis.  |t Diseases Transmitted by Insects Other than Diptera.  |t Chagas' Disease.  |t Flea-Borne Diseases: Plague and Murine Typhus.  |t Louse-Borne Diseases: Typhus and Relapsing Fever.  |t Some General Conclusions --  |g Pt. 4.  |t Modern Problems and Possibilities.  |t The Present Predicament.  |t The Present Situation Regarding Arthropod-Borne Diseases.  |t Meeting the Challenge.  |t Current Options for Vector Control.  |t The Search for New Insecticides.  |t Control by Altering Vector Behaviour.  |t Biological Control.  |t Insect Growth Regulators.  |t Physical and Chemical Genetic Control Techniques.  |t Genetic Control by Biological Techniques.  |t The Sterile Insect Release Method.  |t Environmental Sanitation.  |t Human Factors in Vector Control.  |t Population Pressure.  |t The Human Factor in the Organisation of Control Measures Locally.  |t Central Organisation of Vector Control. 
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