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1 online resource (397 pages) |
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Society for General Microbiology Symposia ; v. 63 |
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Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology.
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COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; EDITORS' PREFACE; Vector-borne diseases; INTRODUCTION; VECTOR-BORNE VIRUS DISEASES; Yellow fever; Dengue fever; West Nile virus; Tick-borne encephalitis virus; VECTOR-BORNE RICKETTSIAL DISEASES; Typhus and spotted fever; Ehrlichiosis and related diseases; VECTOR-BORNE BACTERIAL DISEASES; Plague; Lyme disease; VECTOR-BORNE PROTOZOAN DISEASES; African trypanosomiasis; New World trypanosomiasis; Malaria; VECTOR-BORNE NEMATODE DISEASES; Lymphatic filariasis; PERSPECTIVE AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES |
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Evolution of tick-borne disease systemsINTRODUCTION -- BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON PATHOGENS' USE OF TICKS AS VECTORS; Potential rate of evolutionary change in tick-borne pathogens; TICK-BORNE FLAVIVIRUS EVOLUTION; Driven by intrinsic vertebrate host factors; Directed by extrinsic environmental factors?; Testing the role of climate in the evolution of tick-borne flaviviruses; LYME BORRELIOSIS -- B. BURGDORFERI S.L. EVOLUTION; Driven by intrinsic vertebrate host factors; Impact of extrinsic environmental factors; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Insect transmission of viruses |
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INTRODUCTIONCIRCULATIVE TRANSMISSION; Circulative-propagative transmission; Circulative-non-propagative transmission; NON-CIRCULATIVE TRANSMISSION; Non-circulative transmission of plant viruses; Non-circulative transmission of animal viruses; FUTURE RESEARCH AND PROSPECTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; RNA-based immunity in insects; INTRODUCTION; THE RNA-SILENCING PATHWAY; VIRUSES ARE TARGETS AND INDUCERS OF RNA SILENCING IN INSECTS; INVERTEBRATE VIRAL SUPPRESSORS OF RNA SILENCING; SUPPRESSION OF RNA SILENCING IS ESSENTIAL FOR VIRUS INFECTION IN FRUIT FLY CELLS |
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RNA SILENCING AS AN RNA-BASED ANTIVIRAL IMMUNITY IN MOSQUITO CELLSFEATURES OF THE INVERTEBRATE RSAR; CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Specificity of Borrelia-tick vector relationships; BORRELIA; TICK VECTORS AND RESERVOIRS; TRANSOVARIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA-TICK RELATIONSHIPS; CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Bunyavirus/mosquito interactions; INTRODUCTION; BUNYAVIRUS CHARACTERISTICS; NATURAL HISTORY OF ORTHOBUNYAVIRUSES; GENOME SEGMENT REASSORTMENT; EFFECTS OF BUNYAVIRUS REPLICATION ON HOST CELL METABOLISM; A BUNYAVIRUS MINIREPLICON SYSTEM IN MOSQUITO CELLS |
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EFFECTS OF BUNYAMWERA VIRUS NSs ON HOST PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN MAMMALIAN AND MOSQUITO CELLSCONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; How do mosquito vectors live with their viruses?; INTRODUCTION; STAGES OF ARBOVIRAL INFECTIONS IN MOSQUITOES; Infection of the digestive tract; Virus replication in mosquito cells; Virus dissemination from the gut; Infection of organs within the haemocoel; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; VIRUS GENETICS AND MOSQUITO INFECTION; WILD-TYPE AND VACCINE STRAINS OF FLAVIVIRUSES IN MOSQUITOES; VIRUS EVOLUTION; VECTOR GENETICS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; Vector competence |
| Summary |
Several billion people are at daily risk of life threatening vector-borne diseases such as malaria, trypanosomiasis and dengue. This volume describes the way in which the causal pathogens of such diseases interact with the vectors that transmit them. It details the elegant biological adaptations that have enabled pathogens to live with their vectors and, in some circumstances, to control them. This knowledge has led to novel preventative strategies in the form of antibiotics and new vaccines which are targeted not at the pathogen itself but at its specific vector |
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Introduction to the concept of vector competence |
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Print version record |
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Arthropod vectors.
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Communicable diseases -- Transmission.
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Vector control.
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Vector-pathogen relationships.
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Arthropod Vectors
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Disease Transmission, Infectious
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Arthropod vectors
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Communicable diseases -- Transmission
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Vector control
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Vector-pathogen relationships
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Geoffrey L
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Osbourn, Anne
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| ISBN |
9780511141201 |
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0511141203 |
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9780511754845 |
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0511754841 |
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9780521843126 |
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052184312X |
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