Ticks : biology, disease and control / edited by Alan S. Bowman, Patricia. A. Nuttall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Alan. S., editor.

Nuttall, Patricia A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ticks as carriers of disease.

Ticks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 506 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Widespread and increasing resistance to most available acaracides threatens both global livestock industries and public health. This necessitates better understanding of ticks and the diseases they transmit in the development of new control strategies. Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control is written by an international collection of experts and covers in-depth information on aspects of the biology of the ticks themselves, various veterinary and medical tick-borne pathogens, and aspects of traditional and potential new control methods. A valuable resource for graduate students, academic researchers and professionals, the book covers the whole gamut of ticks and tick-borne diseases from microsatellites to satellite imagery and from exploiting tick saliva for therapeutic drugs to developing drugs to control tick populations. It encompasses the variety of interconnected fields impinging on the economically important and biologically fascinating phenomenon of ticks, the diseases they transmit and methods of their control.

Contents:

Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names / by S.C. Barker and A. Murrell

The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics / by S.e. Randolph

Tick salivary glands : the physiology of tick water-balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission / by A.s. Bowman, A. Ball, and J.R. Sauer

Tick saliva : from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics / by J.M. Anderson And J.G. Valenzuela

Tick toxins : perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks / by B.J. Mans, R. Gothe, and A.W.H. Neitz

Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins / by L. Grubhoffer ... [et al.]

Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction / by H.H. Rees

Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders, and insects : a comparative study / by W.R. Kaufman

Tick immunobiology / by M. Brossard and S.K. Wikel

Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens / by P.A. Nuttall and M. Labuda

Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America / by J. Piesman and L. Gern, H.H. Rees

Viruses transmitted by ticks / by M. Labuda and P.A. Nuttall

Babesiosis of cattle / by R. Bock ... [et al.]

Theileria : life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector / by R. Bishop ... [et al.]

Characterization of the tick-pathogen-host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia anaplasma marginale / by K.M. Kocan, J. de la Fuente, and E. F. Blouin

Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections / by S.R. Telford III and H.K. Goethert

Analyzing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using GIS / by M. Daniel, J. Kolar, and P. Zeman

Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide-resistance / by J.E. George, J.M. Pound, and R.B. Davey

Anti-tick vaccines / by P. Willadsen

Anti-tick biological control agents : assessment and future perspectives / by M. Samish, H. Ginsberg, and I. Glazer

Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control / by D.E. Sonnenshine.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19732-5

0-511-46496-7

0-511-46264-6

0-511-46189-5

1-299-39902-9

0-511-46422-3

0-511-46343-X

0-511-55180-0

OCLC:

826450777