Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the fifth edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction to mosquitoes (Culicidae)
- 2 Anopheline mosquitoes (Anophelinae)
- 3 Culicine mosquitoes (Culicinae)
- 4 Black flies (Simuliidae)
- 5 Phlebotomine sand flies (Phlebotominae)
- 6 Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
- 7 Horse flies (Tabanidae)
- 8 Tsetse flies (Glossinidae)
- 9 House flies and stable flies (Muscidae) and latrine flies (Fanniidae)
- 10 Flies and myiasis
- 11 Fleas (Siphonaptera)
- 12 Sucking lice (Anoplura)
- 13 Bedbugs (Cimicidae)
- 14 Triatomine bugs (Triatominae)
- 15 Cockroaches (Blattaria)
- 16 Soft ticks (Argasidae)
- 17 Hard ticks (Ixodidae)
- 18 Scabies mites (Sarcoptidae)
- 19 Scrub typhus mites (Trombiculidae)
- 20 Miscellaneous mites
- Appendix Names of some chemicals and microbials used in vector control (with common trade names in parentheses)
- Glossary of common terms relevant to medical entomology
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Preface to the fifth edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the fifth edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction to mosquitoes (Culicidae)
- 2 Anopheline mosquitoes (Anophelinae)
- 3 Culicine mosquitoes (Culicinae)
- 4 Black flies (Simuliidae)
- 5 Phlebotomine sand flies (Phlebotominae)
- 6 Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
- 7 Horse flies (Tabanidae)
- 8 Tsetse flies (Glossinidae)
- 9 House flies and stable flies (Muscidae) and latrine flies (Fanniidae)
- 10 Flies and myiasis
- 11 Fleas (Siphonaptera)
- 12 Sucking lice (Anoplura)
- 13 Bedbugs (Cimicidae)
- 14 Triatomine bugs (Triatominae)
- 15 Cockroaches (Blattaria)
- 16 Soft ticks (Argasidae)
- 17 Hard ticks (Ixodidae)
- 18 Scabies mites (Sarcoptidae)
- 19 Scrub typhus mites (Trombiculidae)
- 20 Miscellaneous mites
- Appendix Names of some chemicals and microbials used in vector control (with common trade names in parentheses)
- Glossary of common terms relevant to medical entomology
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Preface to the fifth edition
As in previous editions, the style and format of this book remains basically unchanged, as this has proved popular with students. Nevertheless this new edition has been extensively revised, and the sections on the control of the various vectors, which can quickly become outdated, have been updated to keep abreast with new control strategies. The incidence of some diseases, such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Chagas disease and African trypanosomiasis, has been reduced through concerted control measures; in marked contrast, other infections, such as dengue, have become more frequent, and in several areas of the world there has been an increase in bedbug numbers. And although the latest control strategies have reduced malaria transmission in several countries, in others there has been little reduction of malaria.
To keep up to date with disease outbreaks readers are recommended to log on to ProMED-mail (www.promedmail.org), an electronic reporting system with daily updates written in several languages.
Several of the black and white line drawings and colour photographs of vectors have been replaced with better ones, and in addition there are eight new colour plates.
As in the last edition, the more conservative classification of mosquitoes has been retained. In particular, Ochlerotatus is treated as a subgenus, not a genus, and consequently all species formerly in Ochlerotatus are placed, once again, in the genus Aedes. I have done this to make it easier for students.
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- Medical Entomology for Students , pp. xixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012