Tick Vector Biology: Medical and Veterinary Aspects

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The book provides a comprehensive account of ticks and tick-borne diseases occurring in tropical and subtropical areas. It begins with a complete

up-to-date overview of the systematics of the Ixodida (Ixodidae, Argasidae and Nutalliellidae) and is followed by a review of the problem of ticks and tick-borne diseases of domestic animals world wide. This leads on to

multi-disciplinary approaches to planning tick and tick-borne disease

control and to contributions on calculating the economic impact of a

tick species such as Amblyomma americanum on beef production systems.
Heartwater fever (cowdriosis) and dermatophilosis are endemic in Africa and pose a threat to the North American mainland. The epidemiology of these two diseases is discussed in detail as is the role of frozen vaccines

to control bovine babesiosis and anaplasmosis. The book also includes
chapters on tick transmitted zoonoses such as Lyme borreliosis, tick typhus and ehrlichiosis. It concludes with a review of the acaricidal treatment of tick infestation.