Tick Vector Biology: Medical and Veterinary Aspects

ISBN-13: 9783642766459 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 193 str.

Bruce Fivaz; Trevor Petney; Ivan Horak

Opis

The book provides a comprehensive account of ticks and tick-borne diseases occurring in tropical and subtropical areas. It begins with a complete up-to-date overview of the systematics of the Ixodida (Ixodidae, Argasidae and Nutalliellidae) and is followed by a review of the problem of ticks and tick-borne diseases of domestic animals world wide. This leads on to multi-disciplinary approaches to planning tick and tick-borne disease control and to contributions on calculating the economic impact of a tick species such as Amblyomma americanum on beef production systems. Heartwater fever (cowdriosis) and dermatophilosis are endemic in Africa and pose a threat to the North American mainland. The epidemiology of these two diseases is discussed in detail as is the role of frozen vaccines to control bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis. The book also includes chapters on tick transmitted zoonoses such as Lyme borreliosis, tick typhus and ehrlichiosis. It concludes with a review of the acaricidal treatment of tick infestation.

Spis treści

Systematics of the Ixodida (Argasidae, Ixodidae, Nuttalliellidae): An Overview and Some Problems.- Veterinary Significance of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases.- Economics, Epidemiology and Ecology: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Planning and Appraisal of Tick and Tick-Borne Disease Control in Southern Africa.- Bio-Economic Impact of Amblyomma americanum in Beef Cattle Production Systems.- Biological Processes in the Epidemiology of Heartwater.- Studies on the Role of Amblyomma variegatum in the Transmission of Dermatophilus congolensis.- Bovine Ehrlichiosis.- Canine Ehrlichiosis.- Lyme Borreliosis in Southern Africa.- Tick-Bite Fever (Tick Typhus) in Southern Africa.- Observations on African Tick Typhus (Tick-Bite Fever) in Zimbabwe.- The Role of Ticks in the Epidemiology of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Southern Africa.- Protection of Cattle Against Babesiosis in Tropical and Subtropical Countries with a Live, Frozen Vaccine.- Chemical Control of Ticks on Cattle.- Organism Index.