Vector-borne diseases
Subtitle: understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections : workshop summary
By: rapporteurs, Stanley M. Lemon ... [et al.] ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Contributors: Lemon, Stanley M.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780309108973
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses; Epidemics -- Congresses; Animals as carriers of disease -- Congresses; Communicable Disease Control -- Congresses; Disease Outbreaks -- Congresses; Disease Vectors -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses; Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Summary and assessment; title: Vector-borne disease emergence and resurgence. Overview; title: The global threat of emergent/reemergent vector-borne diseases / Duane J. Gubler; title: Why we do not understand the ecological connections between the environment and human health: the case for vector-borne disease / Durland Fish; title: Ecology of emerging vector-borne plant diseases / Rodrigo P.P. Almeida; title: Ecology of dsiease: the intersection of human and animal health / Kenneth J. Linthicum ... [et al.]; title: Climate change and health: global to local influences on disease risk / Jonathan A. Patz and Sarah H. Olson; title: Climate change and vector-borne disease: update on climate effects on Lyme disease and West Nile Virus in North America / Jonathan A. Patz and Christopher K. Uejio; title: Vector-borne disease detection and control. Overview; title: Longitudinal field studies will guide a paradigm shift in dengue prevention / Thomas W. Scott and Amy C. Morrison; title: Innovative decision support and vector control approaches to control denge / Lars Eisen and Barry J. Beaty; title: West Nile virus / Lyle R. Petersen; title: Rift Valley fever is an emerging arthropod-borne virus / C.J. Peters; title: The implications of entomological monitoring and evaluation for arthropod vector-borne disease control programs / Michael Coleman and Janet Hemingway; title: Vector-borne zoonotic diseases and their ecological and economic implications: bluetongue disease in Europe / Bennie I. Osburn; title: Environmental factors influence transmission of sin nombre hantavirus between rodents (and to humans?) / Charles H. Calisher ... [et al.]; title: Integrating strategies to address vector-borne disease. Overview; title: Needs and opportunities to control vector-borne diseases: responses to the IOM microbial threats to health committee recommendations / Barry J. Beaty and Lars Eisen; title: Integration of strategies: surveillance, diagnosis, and response / Roger S. Nasci; title: Surveillance, diagnosis, and response: integration of strategies / Sherrilyn Wainwright; title: Confronting vector-borne diseases in an age of ecologic change / David M. Morens; title: The vector biology program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Adriana Costero; title: Appendixes.