James Busvine
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
0e druk, 1993
9783540554578
Disease Transmission by Insects
Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent it
Specificaties
Paperback, 361 blz.
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Engels
Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
0e druk, 1993
ISBN13: 9783540554578
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Samenvatting
About 100 years ago, it was dicovered that insects transmit
grave, mainly tropical diseases - very much to the
astonishment of the physicians of that time, who saw this as
a new, possibly easy, way of eradicating the diseases by
exterminating the vectors. For some years, DDT and other
then new insecticides achieved great improvements, but
subsequently serious setbacks emerged:
insecticide-resistance and anxiety about toxicity to man and
animals. In the past twenty years, serious efforts have been
made tofind alternatives, with varying degrees of success.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9783540554578
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:361
Uitgever:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Inhoudsopgave
1: The Discovery of Unsuspected Dangers.- Prologue: How Arthropods Came to Transmit Human Diseases.- Section 1: The Insect Vectors.- Section 2: Diseases Transmitted by Mites and Ticks.- Some Concluding Remarks Regarding the Transmission of Arthropod-Borne Diseases.- 2: Control Measures Pre-DDT.- Early Responses to New Opportunities.- Control Measures During the Inter-War Period.- The Control of Various Insect-Borne Diseases.- 3: The Impact of the new Pesticides.- New Kinds of Insecticide.- Advances in the Control of Various Insect-Borne Diseases.- 4: Modern Problems and Possibilities.- The Present Predicament.- Current Options for Vector Control.- Human Factors in Vector Control.