BookCarlos Brisola Marcondes, editor.
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.