Ectoparasitic Diseases
- 1st Edition - August 31, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: James H. Diaz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 2 4 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 2 5 - 3
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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Request a sales quoteEctoparasitic 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.
This book offers comprehensive coverage to researchers, practitioners, and advanced students studying ectoparasitic vector-borne diseases.
- 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
Researchers, academics, infectious disease specialists, masters and doctoral-level graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows studying parasitology and vector-borne diseases
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the author
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction to ectoparasitic diseases
- Definitions
- Taxonomy
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology
- Infectious disease transmission
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Pediculosis (lice)
- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Diagnosis
- Clinical manifestations and differential diagnosis
- Therapy
- Prevention
- Chapter 3. Trombidiosis (larval chigger mites)
- Definitions and taxonomy
- Life cycle
- Regional distribution and ecology
- Feeding behavior
- Clinical manifestations
- Treatment
- Complications
- Prevention and control
- Chapter 4. Scrub typhus (larval typhus mites)
- Introduction
- Taxonomy
- Arthropod vectors
- Ecology
- Epidemiology
- The microbiology and pathophysiology of rickettsial infectious diseases
- Clinical manifestations of scrub typhus
- Laboratory diagnosis
- Treatment
- Empirical treatment with doxycycline in patients with undifferentiated non-malaria fever with eschar
- Prevention and control of scrub typhus
- Rickettsialpox and scrub typhus as widely distributed and neglected mite-transmitted infectious diseases
- Chapter 5. Scabies (scabies mites)
- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Transmission
- Clinical manifestations
- Diagnosis
- Therapy
- Prevention and control
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6. Rickettsialpox (rat mites)
- Reservoirs and vectors
- Life cycle and feeding behavior
- Epidemiology
- Clinical manifestations
- Differential diagnosis
- Laboratory diagnosis
- Therapy
- Prevention and control
- Chapter 7. Animal (zoonotic) and insect mites
- Animal (zoonotic) mites
- Domestic animal-transmitted cheyletiellosis
- Domestic animal scabies in humans (Scabietic mange)
- Zoonotic acariasis: Definitions
- Rat, bat, and snake mite bites
- Insect (itch) mites
- Chapter 8. Plant, food, dust, and follicle mites and allergies
- Plant, food, and food storage mites
- Dust mites and dust mite allergies
- Follicle mites
- Chapter 9. Myiasis, murine typhus, tungiasis, and plague (flies and fleas)
- Myiasis
- Flea infestations
- Murine typhus
- Tungiasis
- Plague
- Chapter 10. Tick-transmitted bacterial diseases
- Introduction
- Vector behavior
- Biology and taxonomy
- Epidemiology
- Borrelioses
- Rickettsioses
- Tularemia
- Anaplasmosis and the ehrlichioses
- Prevention and control of tickborne diseases
- Chapter 11. Babesiosis
- History
- Vectors, reservoirs, and regional distributions
- Microbiology
- Epidemiology
- Clinical manifestations
- Laboratory Diagnosis
- Therapy
- Prevention and control
- Chapter 12. Tick-transmitted viral diseases
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Tickborne viral encephalitides
- Hemorrhagic fever viruses
- Coltiviruses
- Chapter 13. The tick sialome, tick-transmitted coinfections, and tick paralysis
- The tick sialome
- Tick-transmitted coinfections
- Tick paralysis
- The differential diagnosis of tick paralysis
- Chapter 14. Red meat allergies after tick bites
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Geographic distribution
- Immunology
- Risk factors
- Clinical manifestations
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prevention and control
- Conclusions
- Chapter 15. True bugs (Order Hemiptera) as ectoparasites: Bedbugs
- Introduction and taxonomy
- Biology and life cycle
- Bed bug behavior
- Epidemiology
- Clinical manifestations
- Detection and diagnosis
- Management
- Control and prevention
- Conclusions
- Chapter 16. Insect repellents, insecticides, and vector control
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Why use insect repellents?
- The history of insect repellents
- Selecting the best insect repellents
- Chemical versus plant-based insect repellents: Which are the best?
- Insect repellent use in children and during pregnancy
- Insect repellents and sunscreens
- Area and barrier chemical insect repellents
- Nonchemical measures for the management, control, and prevention of arthropod-borne infectious diseases
- Conclusions
- Chapter 17. Delusional ectoparasitosis (Morgellons disease)
- Introduction
- History and disease definitions
- Epidemiology
- Clinical behavioral manifestations
- Differential diagnosis
- Treatment
- Conclusions
- Chapter 18. Conclusions
- Introduction
- Bartonella quintana – A reemerging pathogen
- Babesiosis – Increasing regional prevalence
- Rhipicephalus sanguineus – A new and unanticipated vector
- Conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 31, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 276
- No. of pages (eBook): 400
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443267246
- eBook ISBN: 9780443267253
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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, USARead Ectoparasitic Diseases on ScienceDirect