Chapter 15. Medical and veterinary entomology


Bed bug on the skin of its host. (After Anon. 1991.)
Bed bug on the skin of its host. (After Anon. 1991.)


15. Medical and veterinary entomology

15.1. Insect nuisance and phobia

15.2.1. Insect venoms

15.2.2. Blister and urtica (itch)-inducing insects

15.2.3. Insect allergenicity

15.3. Insects as causes and vectors of disease

15.4. Generalized disease cycles

15.5. Pathogens

15.5.1. Malaria

15.5.2. Arboviruses

15.5.3. Rickettsias and plague

15.5.4. Protists other than malaria

15.5.5. Filariases

15.6. Forensic entomology

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