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Ectoparasitic Diseases

  • 1st Edition - August 31, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: James H. Diaz
  • Language: English

Ectoparasitic Diseases provides information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ectoparasitic conditions caused by arthropods of medical importance. The book discus… Read more

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Description

Ectoparasitic Diseases provides information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ectoparasitic conditions caused by arthropods of medical importance. The book discusses the manner in which arthropod ectoparasites threaten human health by bodily infestations, covering specific ectoparasites and the vector-borne infectious diseases transmitted by each. Chapters offer definitions, epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, therapeutic treatments, and preventive measures. In addition, the book examines the public health, socioeconomic, and psychological impact from ectoparasitic infections.

This book offers comprehensive coverage to researchers, practitioners, and advanced students studying ectoparasitic vector-borne diseases.

Key features

  • Identifies the types of ectoparasites and differentiates between infections transmitted by ectoparasites, from ectoparasitic infestations, and from allergies
  • Provides information on diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control strategies
  • Examines the psychological and socioeconomic impact of infections, infestations, health disparities, ectoparasite-associated conditions, allergies, and predisposing risk factors

Readership

Researchers, academics, infectious disease specialists, masters and doctoral-level graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows studying parasitology and vector-borne diseases

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Ectoparasitic Diseases

2. Pediculosis (Lice)

3. Trombidiosis (Larval Chigger Mites)

4. Scrub typhus (Larval Typhus Mites)

5. Scabies (Scabies Mites)

6. Rickettsialpox (Rat Mites)

7. Myiasis, Murine Typhus, Tungiasis, and Plague (Flies and Fleas)

8. Tick-transmitted Bacterial Diseases

9. Babesiosis

10. Tick-transmitted Viral Diseases

11. The Tick Sialome, Tick-transmitted Coinfections, and Tick Paralysis

12. Red Meat Allergies after Tick Bites

13. True Bugs (Order Hemiptera) as Ectoparasites: Bedbugs

14. Insect Repellents, Insecticides, and Vector Control

15. Delusional Ectoparasitosis (Morgellons Disease)

16. Conclusions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 5, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

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James H. Diaz

James H. Diaz, MD, DrPH, is a Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the LSU School of Public Health in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Diaz’s current academic and clinical research interests include (1) occupational and environmental toxicology; (2) infectious diseases, poisonings, and injuries in international travelers; (3) emerging environmentally associated diseases and poisonings, particularly food-borne, water-borne, and vector-borne infectious diseases and poisonings; and (4) the impact of climate change on natural disasters and their public health outcomes. Dr. Diaz has published over 300 original articles and chapters in scientific journals and textbooks. Dr. Diaz currently authors the six-chapter section with updates on ectoparasitic infectious diseases in Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, the internationally recognized reference text on infectious diseases.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, LSU School of Public Health; Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at the LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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