Lyme borreliosis : biology, epidemiology and control /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2002.
• Subjects: Lyme disease.; Borrelia burgdorferi.; Environmental Pest Management.; Host Resistance and Immunity.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Veterinary Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Diagnosis of Animal Diseases, (New March 2000); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Diagnosis of Human Disease, (New March 2000); Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000); Microbiology (General); Man.; Vertebrates.; Clinical aspects.; Diagnosis.; Disease control.; Disease vectors.; Domestic animals.; Drug therapy.; Environmental management.; Epidemiology.; Human diseases.; Microbial ecology.; Tickborne diseases.; Vaccine development.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 12 chapters. The first chapter outlines the historical and clinical aspects of Lyme borreliosis including descriptions of the disease in humans and domestic animals, and of diagnosis and treatment. The second chapter deals with ecological methods and terminology and chapters 3-5 d...

Table of Contents:

• History and Characteristics of Lyme Borreliosis / G. Stanek, F. Strle, J. Gray and G.P. Wormser
• Ecological Research on Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato : Terminology and Some Methodological Pitfalls / O. Kahl, L. Gern, L. Eisen and R.S. Lane
• Molecular and Cellular Biology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato / S. Bergström, L. Noppa, Å. Gylfe and Y. Östberg
• Vectors of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato / L. Eisen and R.S. Lane
• Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the Vertebrate Host / K. Kurtenbach, S.M. Schäfer, S. de Michelis, S. Etti and H.-S. Sewell
• Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Europe / L. Gern and P.-F. Humair
• Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Russia / E.I. Korenberg, N.B. Gorelova and Y.V. Kovalevskii
• Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Japan and East Asia / K. Miyamoto and T. Masuzawa
• Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in North America / J. Piesman
• Epidemiology of Lyme Borreliosis / D.T. Dennis and E.B. Hayes
• Vaccination against Lyme Borreliosis / E.B. Hayes and M.E. Schriefer
• Environmental Management for Lyme Borreliosis Control / K.C. Stafford and U. Kitron.