Tick-borne diseases of humans / edited by Jesse L. Goodman, David T. Dennis, and Daniel E. Sonenshine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodman, Jesse L.

Dennis, David T. (David Tappen), 1939-

Sonenshine, Daniel E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tick-borne diseases.

Tick-Borne Diseases.

Arachnid Vectors.

Ticks.

Medical Subjects:

Tick-Borne Diseases.

Arachnid Vectors.

Ticks.

Physical Description:

xiii, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [2005]

Contents:

Overview of tick-borne infections of humans / David T. Dennis and Joseph F. Piesman

The biology of tick vectors of human disease / Daniel E. Sonenshine

The tick: a different kind of host for human pathogens / Ulrike G. Munderloh, Steven D. Jauron, and Timothy J. Kurtti

Management of ticks and tick-borne diseases / Howard S. Ginsberg and Kirby C. Stafford III

The clinical approach to the patient with a possible tick-borne illness / Jesse L. Goodman

The human reaction to ticks / Uwe U. Müller-Doblies and Stephen K. Wikel

Tick systematics and identification / James E. Keirans and Lance A. Durden

Colorado tick fever and related coltivirus infections / Anthony A. Marfin and Grant L. Campbell

Tick-borne encephalitis / Patricia A. Nuttall and Milan Labuda

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever / Felicity J. Burt and Robert Swanepoel

Lyme borreliosis / Allen C. Steere, Jenifer Coburn, and Lisa Glickstein

Tularemia / Edward B. Hayes

Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (Ehrlichiosis) / Jesse L. Goodman

Human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis / J. E. Dawson ... [et al.]

Other tick-borne ehrlichioses, including ehrlichia ewingii / Christopher D. Paddock, Allison M. Liddell, and Gregory A. Storch

Relapsing fever / Alan G. Barbour

Rocky mountain spotted fever and other spotted fever group rickettsioses / Kevin R. Macaluso and Abdu F. Azad

Mediterranean spotted fever and other tick-borne rickettsioses / Pierre-Edouard Fournier and Didier Raoult

Q Fever / Herbert A. Thompson, David T. Dennis, and Gregory Dasch

Human babesiosis / Mary J. Homer and David H. Persing

Clinical and pathologic atlas of tick-borne diseases / J. Stephen Dumler and Christopher D. Paddock

Geographic distributions of tick-borne diseases and their vectors / Richard N. Brown, Robert S. Lane, and David T. Dennis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1555812384

OCLC:

56614466