(eBook) Arthropod Borne Diseases by Carlos Brisola Marcondes

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Table of Contents

1. General comments and importance of arthropod-related diseases.- 2. Epidemiology of vector-borne diseases.- 3. Blood sucking insects and history.- 4. Blood sucking, vector-parasite relationship and transmission of diseases.- 5. Generalities on arboviruses.- 6. Yellow fever.- 7. Dengue.- 8. Other flaviviruses.- 9. Togaviridae.- 10. Bunyaviruses.- 11. Plague and tularemia.- 12. Rickettsial infections, Bartonella infections and coxiellosis.- 13. Borreliosis: Lyme disease and relapsing fever.- 14. Ehrlichiosis.- 15. Anaplasmosis.- 16. Leishmaniasis.- 17. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease).- 18. Sleeping sickness, nagana.- 19. Other trypanosomiasis.- 20. Malaria.- 21. Babesiosis.- 22. Theileriosis.- 23. Hepatozoonosis.- 24. Lymphatic filariasis.- 25. Onchocerciasis.- 26. Mansonelliasis.- 27. Dirofilariasis.- 28. Loiasis.- 29. Thelaziosis (canine eye-worm).- 30. Habronemosis.- 31. Flies.- 32. Sucking and biting lice.- 33. Fleas.- 34. Diseases caused by Acari (ticks and mites).- 35. Other irritating Arthropods (beetles, bugs, centipedes etc.).- 36. Allergy to bites of hematophagous arthropods.- 37. Geoprocessing and expected distribution of diseases (including deforestation, global warming and other changes).- 38. Wolbachia: influence on pathogeny, treatment and control of arthropod borne diseases.