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LYME DISEASE, TICKS AND YOU: A Guide to Navigating Tick Bites, Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Infections by Shelley Ball PhD |
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2021, 128 pages, color illustration, photographs, resources, and an index of sources. Lyme disease has been rising steadily since the 1990s, and the threat is expected to grow as warmer global temperatures prolong the tick season. Recent estimates su |
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CURRENT CONCEPTS IN FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY
Jens Amendt, Carlo P. Campobasso, M. Lee Goff & Martin Grassberger, editors |
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2010, viii, 376 pages, color & b/w photos, tables, graphs, diagrams. Twenty years ago the use of entomology in a crime scene investigation was considered bizarre, despite the solid scientific background and documented historical applications. Today, |
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LYME DISEASE: Why It's Spreading, How It Makes You Sick, and What to Do About It
by Alan G. Barbour |
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2015, 315 pages, 3 color plates. Once restricted to small forested areas in the northeast and north-central U.S., Lyme disease is now a common infection in North America and Europe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that more th |
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INSECT IMMUNOLOGY
Nancy E. Beckage, editor |
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2007, 360 pages, 6 color plates, b/w photos, SEMs, drawings. This publication, focused on insect immune responses, provides perspectives on both novel and well-established lines of insect immunological research. It emphasizes physiological, biochemic |
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MALARIA PARASITES: Comparative Genomics, Evolution and Molecular Biology
Jane M. Carlton, Susan L. Perkins & Kirk W. Deitsch, editors |
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2013, 280 pages. Since the publication of the first two Plasmodium genome sequences in 2002, numerous other parasite genomes have been sequenced. These include the genomes of several more Plasmodium species, as well as those of other a |
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FORENSIC INSECT IDENTIFICATION
CARDS
by James L. Castner & Jason H. Byrd |
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2000, 59 cards contain 53 premium
close-up color photos of insects and
other arthropods commonly found on human remains.
Information on distribution and identification
is included on the back of each card. Useful tool for professionals and studen |
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ENTOMOLOGY & DEATH: A Procedural Guide second edition |
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2008, 227 pages, b/w drawings. Practical, uniquely illustrated handbook is a valuable reference and practical guide for anyone involved with or interested in forensic entomology. It provides the background of forensic entomology, case study examples, |
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RABIES, LYME DISEASE,
HANTA VIRUS and Other Animal-Borne Human
Diseases in the United States & Canada (What
every Parent, Householder, Camper, Hiker,
Teacher, Wildlife Rehabilitator, Hunter and Fisherman
Needs to Know)
by E. Lendell Cockrum |
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1997, 146 pages, 50 b/w photos, 55 b/w illus., 48
maps, tables. Handy guide for anyone spending time
outdoors. Outlines animal-borne diseases and how
they are transmitted, precautions, normal animal
behavior patterns, disease symptoms, and how to |
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BIG FLEAS HAVE LITTLE FLEAS How Discoveries of Invertebrate Diseases Are Advancing Modern Science by Elizabeth W. Davidson |
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2006, 208 pages. Ever since Louis Pasteur saved the French silk industry by identifying a disease affecting silkworms, scientists have focused attention on smaller and smaller organisms. The rhinoceros beetle once threatened the coconut plantations o |
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INSECT REPELLENTS HANDBOOK, Second Edition
Mustapha Debboun, Stephen P. Frances & Daniel Strickman |
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2014, 409 pages, 14 color & 101 b/w illustrations, figures, tables. This book summarizes evidence-based information on insect repellents to inform decisions by those involved with insect repellent research, development, and use. It is an authoritativ |
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THE MALARIA CAPERS Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz |
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1993, 288 pages. Why, asks the author, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book. The writing was driven by his disgus |
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WHO GAVE PINTA TO THE SANTA MARIA? Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World by Robert S. Desowitz |
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1997, 256 pages. This is an instructive, often humorous, chronicle of how tropical diseases have made their way to the United States. History reveals that many of the "classic" tropical diseases are, in reality, temperate too - yellow fever in Phil |
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND HOST-PATHOGEN EVOLUTION
Krishna R. Dronamraju, editor |
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2010 (originally published in hardcover 2004), 384 pp., 15 b/w photos, 30 line diagrams. From the historical beginnings of J.B.S. Haldane's malaria hypothesis to current research, this book evaluates infectious diseases from an evolutionary perspecti |
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MEDICAL
ENTOMOLOGY, A Textbook on Public Health and Veterinary Problems Caused by Arthropods, revised edition
Bruce F. Eldridge & John D. Edman, editors |
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2004, 659 pages, b/w photos, drawings, tables. Important
book by recognized specialists is recommended for students
and professionals in medical/veterinary entomology
and public health fields. It covers all aspects of
medical entomology with em |
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YELLOW FEVER & PUBLIC
HEALTH IN THE NEW SOUTH
by John H. Ellis |
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1992, 233 pages, 8 b/w illus., 4 tables. The public
health movement in the South developed in the
aftermath of the lower Mississippi Valley yellow
fever epidemic of 1878, a disaster that caused
20,000 deaths. This medical history examines the
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