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In this second edition of Infectious Diseases and Arthropods, Jerome Goddard summarizes the latest thinking about the biological, entomological, and clinical aspects of the major vector-borne diseases around the world. His 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. Among the diseases fully discussed are malaria, dengue and yellow fevers, lymphatic filariasis, spotted fevers, ehrlichiosis, lyme disease, tularemia, and plague. Other arthropod-caused or related problems-such as myiasis, imaginary insect or mite infestations, and arthropod stings and bites-are also treated. At a time when vector-borne diseases are spreading ever more widely, 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.

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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)

The book provides practical information on personal protective measures and techniques for removing attached ticks. The brief chapter Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit HIV was particularly interesting, given the epidemic of HIV in areas of the world with high rate of other mosquito-borne diseases. The text also provided several interesting accounts of early experiments and events leading to important discoveries in understanding yellow fever and Lyme disease. -Family Medicine <br> Two useful appendixes on signs and symptoms and on diagnostic tests are included....this book is probably of most use to physicians and administrators associated with health agencies and researchers from other fields who are interested in increasing their understanding of the biology of vector-borne diseases. It provides information about the ecology and biology of disease beyond the technical details that are readily available in other sources. -Quarterly Review of Biology

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