The biology of mosquitoes. Volume 3, Transmission of viruses and interactions with bacteria /

• Main Author: Clements, A. N. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Mosquitoes.; Mosquitoes > Pathogens.; Mosquitoes as carriers of disease.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Aedes.; Bacteria.; Culicidae.; Man.; Viruses.; Arboviruses.; Disease transmission.; Disease vectors.; Epidemiology.; Host parasite relationships.; Human diseases.; Immune response.; Reviews.; Taxonomy.; Vector control.; Viral diseases.; Electronic books.
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This latest volume of "The Biology of Mosquitoes" addresses fundamental aspects of the interactions between mosquitoes and the viruses and bacteria that infect them. Discussions in this volume include a review on the developments in the taxonomy and nomenclature of Aedine mosquitoes. It al...

Table of Contents:

• Host / parasite interactions
• Immune responses of mosquitoes
• Viruses
• Arboviruses : characteristics and concepts
• Arboviruses : case studies of transmission
• Pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria.