Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control

Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control PDF

By Alan S. Bowman and Patricia A. Nuttall

Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control PDF. 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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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Systematics and evolution of ticks with a list of valid genus and species names
2. The impact of tick ecology on pathogen transmission dynamics
3. Tick salivary glands: the physiology of tick water-balance and their role in pathogen trafficking and transmission
4. Tick saliva: from pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics
5. Tick toxins: perspectives on paralysis and other forms of toxicoses caused by ticks
6. Tick lectins and fibrinogen-related proteins
7. Endocrinology of tick development and reproduction
8. Factors that determine sperm precedence in ticks, spiders and insects: a comparative study
9. Tick immunobiology
10. Saliva-assisted transmission of tick-borne pathogens
11. Lyme borreliosis in Europe and North America
12. Viruses transmitted by ticks
13. Babesiosis of cattle
14. Theileria: life cycle stages associated with the ixodid tick vector
15. Characterization of the tick-pathogen-host interface of the tick-borne rickettsia Anaplasma marginal
16. Emerging and emergent tick-borne infections
17. Analyzing and predicting the occurrence of ticks and tick-borne diseases using
18. Acaricides for controlling ticks on cattle and the problem of acaricide-resistance
19. Anti-tick vaccines
20. Anti-tick biological control agents: assessment and future perspectives
21. Pheromones and other semiochemicals of ticks and their use in tick control

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