Ticks
Biology, Ecology, and Diseases
- 1st Edition - January 7, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Nicholas Johnson
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 1 4 8 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 8 4 7 - 5
Ticks: Biology, Ecology and Diseases provides a detailed overview of the fascinating world of tick biology and ecology. This book discusses disease transmission to humans and lives… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTicks: Biology, Ecology and Diseases provides a detailed overview of the fascinating world of tick biology and ecology. This book discusses disease transmission to humans and livestock, assesses the impact of human behavior and climate change on tick biology, and details how this will affect future disease transmission. Written by an expert on ticks and their transmitted diseases, this book explores the unique biology of ticks and how it influences the transmission of some of the most devastating diseases. In a series of detailed chapters, the book provides up-to-date information on the interrelationship between ticks and the vertebrates they feed on.
In addition, the book covers information on recent scientific discoveries surrounding ticks, along with reviews on control methods and disease transmission. Other sections cover the recent emergence of tick-borne pathogens, making this book an ideal source for interested scientists, clinicians, veterinarians and experts in the field of tick biology.
- Offers an overview of tick anatomy to assist tick identification
- Provides a thorough and complete update on emerging tick-borne diseases
- Considers current and future options for controlling tick populations
Researchers and practitioners in entomology, animal health studies, and anyone engaging in tick biology research, Academics and students in entomology, parasitology, veterinary, or animal science studies
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1. A brief introduction to ticks
- Why study ticks? (And write a book about them)
- A note on naming of ticks
- The structure of the book
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2. Tick classification and diversity
- Introduction
- Tick taxonomy
- The families
- The Ixodidae: the hard ticks
- The Argasidae: the soft ticks
- The Nuttalliellidae: Nuttalliella namaqua the odd one out!
- Tick morphology
- Identification of ticks using morphology
- Identification of ticks using genetic sequence
- Identification of ticks using proteomics
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3. The tick life cycle
- Introduction
- Hard ticks
- Soft ticks
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Blood feeding as a life choice and the multiple functions of tick saliva
- Introduction
- Finding a host
- Attachment
- Engorgement
- Detachment
- Problems associated with blood feeding
- Thermoregulation
- Water balance
- Interrupted feeding
- Hyperparasitism
- The exception to the blood-feeding rule
- Tick saliva
- Structure of the tick salivary gland
- The functions of tick salivary glands and saliva
- The effect on skin at the bite site
- The role of tick saliva in pathogen transmission
- Antitick vaccination using components of tick saliva
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5. An introduction to tick-borne disease
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia and New Zealand
- Europe
- North America
- South and Central America
- Summary
- Chapter 6. Tick-borne diseases of humans
- Introduction
- Tick-borne disease caused by viruses
- Tick-borne diseases caused by bacteria
- Tick-borne diseases caused by protozoa
- Nonpathogen-associated disease
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7. Tick-borne diseases of animals
- Introduction
- Tick-borne diseases—viruses
- Tick-borne diseases—protozoa
- Tick-borne diseases—bacteria
- Conclusions
- Chapter 8. Emerging diseases and the impact of the microbiome
- Chapter 9. Emerging tick-borne diseases
- Introduction
- The discovery of Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in China and the emergence of Heartland virus in North America
- The discovery of Beiji virus in China
- Bourbon virus in the United States
- The emergence of Babesia microti in North America
- The emergence of Theileria orientalis type Ikeda in New Zealand
- Conclusions
- Chapter 10. The tick microbiome
- Introduction
- Technologies used to detect pathogens
- The tick virome
- Discovery of segmented flaviviruses
- Pathogen discovery in Ixodes scapularis, North America
- The tick bacteriome
- Other microbiota associated with ticks
- Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Climate change and control of ticks and tick-borne diseases
- Chapter 12. The impact of climate change on ticks and tick-borne disease transmission
- Introduction
- Impact of climate change in temperate regions
- The example of the British Isles
- North America
- Impact of climate change in tropical and subtropical regions
- Impact of climate change at the poles
- Conclusions
- Chapter 13. Controlling ticks and tick-borne disease transmission
- Introduction
- Surveillance: its importance in controlling ticks and tick-borne disease
- Surveying for ticks
- Environmental collection of ticks
- On-host collections of ticks
- Citizen science and surveys
- Detection of tick-associated pathogens
- The challenge of invasive species
- Methods for studying tick-borne disease biology and transmission
- Tick colonies for investigating tick–pathogen interactions
- Tick cell lines as an alternative model system
- Acaricides
- Land management
- Vaccines
- Vaccines directed at individual tick-borne pathogens
- Vaccines directed at ticks
- Public information
- Conclusions
- Chapter 14. Synthesis: future developments in tick research
- New discoveries and species redistribution
- Ticks as vectors
- Climate change and ticks
- Tick genomics
- Harnessing the sialome
- Closing remarks
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 7, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 244
- No. of pages (eBook): 244
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323911481
- eBook ISBN: 9780323998475
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Nicholas Johnson
Nick Johnson has worked in biological research for over 20 years working on projects as diverse as HIV pathogenic mechanisms to transmission of bat borne diseases. The main focus of his research over the past fourteen years has been the investigation of the epidemiology and disease mechanisms of zoonotic viruses including rabies virus, West Nile virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus. He has published extensively through original research in peer-review journals, commissioned reviews and book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Surrey, UKRead Ticks on ScienceDirect