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Title Ticks : biology, disease and control / edited by Alan S. Bowman, Patricia. A. Nuttall
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 506 pages) : illustrations, maps
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 [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- Theileria : life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector / by R. Bishop [and others] -- 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
Summary In-depth coverage of ticks, their pathogens and control measures, written by an international collection of experts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ticks as carriers of disease.
Ticks.
Tick-borne diseases.
Tick-Borne Diseases
Tick Control -- methods
Ticks -- physiology
Ticks
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
Ticks
Ticks as carriers of disease
Krankheitsübertragung
Physiologie
Zecken
Genre/Form Methods (Music)
Form Electronic book
Author Bowman, Alan. S.
Nuttall, Patricia A.
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