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Contenido

The book covers current status and control practices covering malaria, dengue, chagas, human lice, cockroach and house dust mite issues, and novel approaches and resistance management of these diseases.

   INDICE:

Introduction; 1.: Vector biology diagnostics and public health pesticides development through the Product Development Partnership route; Janet Hemingway (LSTM); Current Status and Control Practices; 2.: Pyrethroid resistance in the African malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae, and potential of alternative insecticides for indoor residual spraying and use on mosquito nets; Mark Rowland (LSHTM) and Raphael N'Guessan (LSHTM); 3.: Insecticide resistance in the mosquito Culex pipiens Complex: Concerns about development of pyrethroid resistance; Osamu Komagata, Shinji Kasai and Takashi Tomita (NIID); 4.: Vector control for prevention of dengue: Current status and future strategies; Tessa B. Knox and Thomas W. Scott (UCD); 5.: Current Status and challenges of Chagas disease control initiatives in the Americas; Jun Nakagawa (Univ, of Tokyo); 6.: Human head lice: Status, control and resistance; J. Marshall Clark et al (UMASS); 7.: ABC's of indoor health: Allergens, Baits, and Cockroach mitigation strategies; Coby Schal (NCSU); 8.: Current status of house dust mites in Japan and prospects for control agents; Tomoyuki Hashimoto (JESC); Novel Approaches and Resistance Management; 9.: Controlling Dengue virus transmission in the field with genetically modified mosquitoes; Ken E. Olson and Alexander W.E. Franz (CSU); 10.: Pharmacological mapping of the acetylcholinesterase catalytic gorge in mosquitoes with bis(n)-tacrines; Troy D. Anderson et al. (VT); 11.: Olyset net: A long lasting insecticidal net for vector control; Takaaki Itoh, Yoshinori Shono, John R. Lucas and Takao Ishiwatari; (Sumitomo Chem Co., etc); 12.: Biological efficacy of metofluthrin, a new pyrethroid insecticide, highly effective against mosquitoes; Takao Ishiwatari et al. (Sumitomo etc.); 13.: An inconvenient truth of pyrethroids-Do they have a promising future?; Hitoshi Kawada (Nagasaki Univ.); 14.: The body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus (Phthiraptera:; Pediculidae), genome project: Past, present, and opportunities for the futures; Barry R. Pittendrigh et al. (UIUC); 15.: Resistance management of the human head louse using molecular tools; Si Hyeock Lee et al. (SNU etc); 16.: Monitoring of kdr-mediated pyrethroid resistance in head louse colonies in Japan; Shinji Kasai et al ((NIID, etc); Indexes; Author Index; Subject Index

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Medical entomologists, pesticide chemists, manufacturers of human health products, practitioners of drug and resistance management, pesticide toxicologists, insect genometists, public heath practitioners and regulatory toxicologists

Detalles del artículo

• Páginas : 256
• Editorial : American Chemical Society
• Idioma : Inglés
• Fecha de Publicación : 29/07/2010
• ISBN: 9780841269774
• Serie: ACS symposium series
• Encuadernación : Cartoné
• Nº Volúmenes : 1
• País de Publicación : Estados Unidos