In-depth coverage of ticks, their pathogens and control measures, written by an international collection of experts.
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.
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' this book is a must-buy for every tick biologist and library of every veterinary and medical and biology department on the globe. It is a pleasure to see Cambridge University Press produce it with their exemplary style' Parasites and Vectors
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In-depth coverage of ticks, their pathogens and control measures, written by an international collection of experts.
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Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names |
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The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics |
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Tick salivary glands: the physiology of tick water balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission |
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Tick saliva: from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics |
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Tick toxins: perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks |
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Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins |
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Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction |
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Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders and insects: a comparative study |
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Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens |
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Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America |
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Viruses transmitted by ticks |
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Theileria: life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector |
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Characterization of the tick-pathogen-host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia Anaplasma marginale |
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Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections |
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Analysing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using GIS |
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Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide resistance |
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Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives |
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Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control |
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Alan Bowman has worked at the Universities of Edinburgh, Oxford and Oklahoma State and is now at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests include tick physiology, bioactive factors in tick saliva, drug target development and ecological aspects of borreliosis. Funding for his tick research has come from national funding bodies and both large animal health and small biotechnology companies for which he also acts as a consultant. Pat Nuttall is Director of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), the UK's centre of excellence for integrated research in land-based and freshwater environmental sciences, and part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). She is Professor of Virology of the University of Oxford and a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She was awarded the Ivanovsky Medal for Virology in 1996 by the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in 2000 for services to environmental sciences.
