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9781555812386

Tick-borne Diseases Of Humans

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  • ISBN13:

    9781555812386

  • ISBN10:

    1555812384

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-05-01
  • Publisher: Amer Society for Microbiology

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United States Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD. Comprehensive discussion of the tick-bourne diseases that effect humans. Discusses the diseases and the vectors, including the epidemiology, transmission, laboratory findings, and treatment/prevention. Includes full-color and halftone images, maps and graphs. DNLM: Tick-Bourne Diseases.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Important Notice xv
I. Ticks, Their Interactions with Hosts, and the Diseases They Transmit
Overview of Tick-Borne Infections of Humans
3(9)
David T. Dennis
Joseph F. Piesman
The Biology of Tick Vectors of Humans Disease
12(25)
Daniel E. Sonenshine
The Tick: a Different Kind of Host for Human Pathogens
37(28)
Ulrike G. Munderloh
Steven D. Jauron
Timothy J. Kurtti
Management of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
65(22)
Howard S. Ginsberg
Kirby C. Stafford III
Clinical Approach to the Patient with a Possible Tick-Borne Illness
87(15)
Jesse L. Goodman
The Human Reaction to Ticks
102(21)
Uwe U. Muller-Doblies
Stephen K. Wikel
Tick Systematics and Identification
123(20)
James E. Keirans
Lance A. Durden
II. Specific Diseases
Colorado Tick Fever and Related Coltivirus Infections
143(7)
Anthony A. Marfin
Grant L. Campbell
Tick-Borne Encephalitis
150(14)
Patricia A. Nuttall
Milan Labuda
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
164(12)
Felicity J. Burt
Robert Swanepoel
Lyme Borreliosis
176(31)
Allen C. Steere
Jenifer Coburn
Lisa Glickstein
Tularemia
207(11)
Edward B. Hayes
Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (Ehrlichiosis)
218(21)
Jesse L. Goodman
Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis
239(19)
J. E. Dawson
S. A. Ewing
W. R. Davidson
J. E. Childs
S. E. Little
S. M. Standaert
Other Causes of Tick-Borne Ehrlichioses, Including Ehrlichia ewingii
258(10)
Christopher D. Paddock
Allison M. Liddell
Gregory A. Storch
Relapsing Fever
268(24)
Alan G. Barbour
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses
292(10)
Kevin R. Macaluso
Abdu F. Azad
Mediterranean Spotted Fever and Other Tick-Borne Rickettsioses
302(26)
Pierre-Edouard Fournier
Didier Raoult
Q Fever
328(15)
Herbert A. Thompson
David T. Dennis
Gregory A. Dasch
Human Babesiosis
343(20)
Mary J. Homer
David H. Persing
III. Color Atlases
Clinical and Pathologic Atlas of Tick-Borne Diseases
J. Stephen Dumler
Christopher D. Paddock
Geographic Distributions of Tick-Borne Diseases and Their Vectors
363(30)
Richard N. Brown
Robert S. Lane
David T. Dennis
Index 393

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