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Vector-borne diseases [electronic resource] : understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections : workshop summary / rapporteurs, Stanley M. Lemon ... [et al.] ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

Contributor(s): Lemon, Stanley M | Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Forum on Microbial Threats | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2008Description: xxii, 327 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Congresses | Epidemics -- Congresses | Animals as carriers of disease -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.196/9 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Summary and assessment -- Vector-borne disease emergence and resurgence. Overview -- The global threat of emergent/reemergent vector-borne diseases / Duane J. Gubler -- Why we do not understand the ecological connections between the environment and human health: the case for vector-borne disease / Durland Fish -- Ecology of emerging vector-borne plant diseases / Rodrigo P.P. Almeida -- Ecology of dsiease: the intersection of human and animal health / Kenneth J. Linthicum ... [et al.] -- Climate change and health: global to local influences on disease risk / Jonathan A. Patz and Sarah H. Olson -- 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 -- Vector-borne disease detection and control. Overview -- Longitudinal field studies will guide a paradigm shift in dengue prevention / Thomas W. Scott and Amy C. Morrison -- Innovative decision support and vector control approaches to control denge / Lars Eisen and Barry J. Beaty -- West Nile virus / Lyle R. Petersen --
Rift Valley fever is an emerging arthropod-borne virus / C.J. Peters -- The implications of entomological monitoring and evaluation for arthropod vector-borne disease control programs / Michael Coleman and Janet Hemingway -- Vector-borne zoonotic diseases and their ecological and economic implications: bluetongue disease in Europe / Bennie I. Osburn -- Environmental factors influence transmission of sin nombre hantavirus between rodents (and to humans?) / Charles H. Calisher ... [et al.] -- Integrating strategies to address vector-borne disease. Overview -- Needs and opportunities to control vector-borne diseases: responses to the IOM microbial threats to health committee recommendations / Barry J. Beaty and Lars Eisen -- Integration of strategies: surveillance, diagnosis, and response / Roger S. Nasci -- Surveillance, diagnosis, and response: integration of strategies / Sherrilyn Wainwright -- Confronting vector-borne diseases in an age of ecologic change / David M. Morens -- The vector biology program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Adriana Costero -- Appendixes.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Summary and assessment -- Vector-borne disease emergence and resurgence. Overview -- The global threat of emergent/reemergent vector-borne diseases / Duane J. Gubler -- Why we do not understand the ecological connections between the environment and human health: the case for vector-borne disease / Durland Fish -- Ecology of emerging vector-borne plant diseases / Rodrigo P.P. Almeida -- Ecology of dsiease: the intersection of human and animal health / Kenneth J. Linthicum ... [et al.] -- Climate change and health: global to local influences on disease risk / Jonathan A. Patz and Sarah H. Olson -- 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 -- Vector-borne disease detection and control. Overview -- Longitudinal field studies will guide a paradigm shift in dengue prevention / Thomas W. Scott and Amy C. Morrison -- Innovative decision support and vector control approaches to control denge / Lars Eisen and Barry J. Beaty -- West Nile virus / Lyle R. Petersen --

Rift Valley fever is an emerging arthropod-borne virus / C.J. Peters -- The implications of entomological monitoring and evaluation for arthropod vector-borne disease control programs / Michael Coleman and Janet Hemingway -- Vector-borne zoonotic diseases and their ecological and economic implications: bluetongue disease in Europe / Bennie I. Osburn -- Environmental factors influence transmission of sin nombre hantavirus between rodents (and to humans?) / Charles H. Calisher ... [et al.] -- Integrating strategies to address vector-borne disease. Overview -- Needs and opportunities to control vector-borne diseases: responses to the IOM microbial threats to health committee recommendations / Barry J. Beaty and Lars Eisen -- Integration of strategies: surveillance, diagnosis, and response / Roger S. Nasci -- Surveillance, diagnosis, and response: integration of strategies / Sherrilyn Wainwright -- Confronting vector-borne diseases in an age of ecologic change / David M. Morens -- The vector biology program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Adriana Costero -- Appendixes.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.