Emerging Pests and Vector-Borne Diseases in Europe
Emerging Pests and Vector-Borne Diseases in Europe
Author(s):Edited by: Willem Takken and Bart G.J. KnolsECVD - ISSN 1875-0699, Volume 1
This is a multi-authored book concerning the perceived threat and recorded increase of emerging pests and vector-borne diseases affecting man and animals in Europe.
Historically, Europe suffered from numerous pests and vector-borne diseases, including yellow fever, malaria, plague and typhus. Introduction of hygienic measures, drugs and vector control caused the disappearance of many of these diseases from Europe. In the (sub)tropics, however, many of these diseases still thrive, causing serious health problems for humans and animals. Increased trade, leading to animal and human movement and climate change cause reason to assume that several of these diseases might become re-established or allow 'new' diseases and pests to be introduced in Europe. The recent outbreaks of bluetongue virus in North-western Europe highlights this concern, requiring an effective surveillance systems for the early detection of pests and vector-borne diseases.
In 24 chapters this book provides examples of the most likely pests and diseases affecting man and animals in Europe, with emphasis on ecological factors favouring these diseases and methods for prevention and intervention. The authors are recognized experts in specific fields. All chapters are peer reviewed.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2007
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: 500 pp
ISBN: 978-90-8686-053-1
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- Preface
- Alarm bells ringing: more of the same, and new and novel diseases and pests -
Bart G.J. Knols and Willem Takken
Malaria and Leishmania parasites - Will malaria return to North-West Europe?
Willem Takken, Piet A. Kager and Jan Peter Verhave - Malaria in Southern Europe: resurgence from the past?
Bülent Alten, Helge Kampen and Didier Fontenille - Avian malaria in Europe: an emerging infectious disease?
Silvie Huijben, Willem Schaftenaar, Adriaan Wijsman, Krijn Paaijmans and Willem Takken - The leishmaniases of Southern Europe
Marina Gramiccia and Luigi Gradoni
Bluetongue, West Nile, Usutu, Chikungunya and Dengue viruses - Modelling of vector-borne diseases and transmission of bluetongue virus in
North-West Europe
Aline A. de Koeijer and Armin R.W. Elbers - Bluetongue: an emerging vector-borne disease outbreak in North-western Europe
Willem Takken, Eugene M.A. van Rooij, Niels O. Verhulst, Frans Jacobs, Silvie Huijben, Jacob Beeuwkes, Nikée Groot, Veronique C.A. Vos, Jeroen Spitzen, Rene C.G. Heutink and Piet A. van Rijn - West Nile virus in Europe: waiting for the start of the epidemic?
Marion Koopmans, Byron Martina, Chantal Reusken and Kees van Maanen - Emergence of Usutu virus in Central Europe: diagnosis, surveillance and epizootiology
Herbert Weissenböck, Sonja Chvala-Mannsberger, Tamás Bakonyi and Norbert Nowotny - Should we expect Chikungunya and Dengue in Southern Europe?
Didier Fontenille, Anna Bella Failloux and Roberto Romi
Tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease
- Tick-borne encephalitis in Europe: dynamics of changing risk
Sarah E. Randolph and Dana Šumilo - Lyme disease in Europe: facts and no fiction
Fedor Gassner and Leo S. van Overbeek
Emerging arthropod pests - Psoroptic mange: rising prevalence in UK sheep flocks and prospects for its control
Richard Wall - Waiting for the tiger: establishment and spread of the Aedes albopictus mosquito
in Europe
Ernst-Jan Scholte and Francis Schaffner - Bed bugs: research and resurgence
Clive Boase - Houseflies, annoying and dangerous
Renate C. Smallegange and Cornelis J. den Otter - Novel strategies in head lice control
Hilde Lapeere, Jean-Marie Naeyaert†, and Robert H. Vander Stichele - Novel methods for the identification and control of Culicoides midges as vectors of
emerging diseases
A. Jennifer Mordue (Luntz), John F. Dallas, Damien V. Nolan and James G. Logan
Surveillance, protection and control - Monitoring systems for adult insect pests and disease vectors
Yu Tong Qiu, Jeroen Spitzen, Renate C. Smallegange and Bart G. J. Knols - Personal protection against European disease vectors
Niels O. Verhulst, Christopher F. Curtis and Nigel Hill - Mosquito control in Europe
Norbert Becker and Marija Zgomba
Nature conservation, wildlife management and human activities as drivers - Changes in global scale land use and its implications for nature conservation and
emerging vector-borne diseases
Herbert H.T. Prins and Iain J. Gordon - Wildlife and the risk of vector-borne viral diseases 4
Byron E. Martina and Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus - Invasions of vector-borne diseases driven by transportation and climate change
9 Wouter J. van der Weijden, René A.L. Marcelis and Wilfred Reinhold
- Epilogue: emerging pests and vector-borne diseases are a reality
Willem Takken and Bart G.J. Knols - About the editors
- Contributors
- Reviewers
- Keyword index
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