Medical Entomology

Entomology (Medical and Veterinary)

Entomology for Medical Officers

compass a general account of those arthropods with which the medical officer in tropical climates is concerned. It goes without saying that, coming from the pen it does, the book fulfils its aim. But it does more than this; it compresses into an extraordinarily small compass, an enormous amount of information. The language is a model of conciseness with the occasional diversion of a gentle gibe...

Contributions of Morphometrics to Medical Entomology

Morphometrics quantitatively describes the morphological variation of objects.When applied to biological forms, it is a particular field of biometrics. In medical entomology, where a major interest is the biology of insects in their natural environment, morphometrics might be considered as a tool for quantifying the phenotypic variation of an organism. Morphometrics focuses on variation, its pa...

Medical Entomology for Students, 5th Edition

I the ever-changing field of medical entomology, Mike Service’s textbook, Medical Entomology for Students, is now in its fifth edition. The usefulness, adaptability, popularity—and, therefore, longevity—of this textbook is remarkable among the large variety of books on the subject published during the past 20 years. As in earlier editions, the book is concisely written to provide basic informat...

The evolution and impact of medical entomology.

Insects and arachnids attack man ,in two ways. Firstly, by Physical Attack, as when one or more of them bite or sting, and secondly, Iby Transmitting Pathogenic Organisms, as When a female Anopheles mosquito inoculates the parasites that cause ma:laria. An example of 'physical attack' occurs each year during the short Arctic Summer O'fone to .three months in northern Canada. Here, over an area ...