Author | Busvine, James R. author |
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Title | Disease Transmission by Insects [electronic resource] : Its Discovery and 90 Years of Effort to Prevent it / by James R. Busvine |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1993 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45716-6 |
Descript | XII, 361 p. online resource |
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