Vector-borne diseases understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections : workshop summary /
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Table of Contents:
- Summary and assessment
- Vector-borne disease emergence and resurgence. Overview
- The global threat of emergent/reemergent vector-borne diseases / Duane J. Gubler
- Why we do not understand the ecological connections between the environment and human health: the case for vector-borne disease / Durland Fish
- Ecology of emerging vector-borne plant diseases / Rodrigo P.P. Almeida
- Ecology of dsiease: the intersection of human and animal health / Kenneth J. Linthicum ... [et al.]
- Climate change and health: global to local influences on disease risk / Jonathan A. Patz and Sarah H. Olson
- Climate change and vector-borne disease: update on climate effects on Lyme disease and West Nile Virus in North America / Jonathan A. Patz and Christopher K. Uejio
- Vector-borne disease detection and control. Overview
- Longitudinal field studies will guide a paradigm shift in dengue prevention / Thomas W. Scott and Amy C. Morrison
- Innovative decision support and vector control approaches to control denge / Lars Eisen and Barry J. Beaty
- West Nile virus / Lyle R. Petersen
- Rift Valley fever is an emerging arthropod-borne virus / C.J. Peters
- The implications of entomological monitoring and evaluation for arthropod vector-borne disease control programs / Michael Coleman and Janet Hemingway
- Vector-borne zoonotic diseases and their ecological and economic implications: bluetongue disease in Europe / Bennie I. Osburn
- Environmental factors influence transmission of sin nombre hantavirus between rodents (and to humans?) / Charles H. Calisher ... [et al.]
- Integrating strategies to address vector-borne disease. Overview
- Needs and opportunities to control vector-borne diseases: responses to the IOM microbial threats to health committee recommendations / Barry J. Beaty and Lars Eisen
- Integration of strategies: surveillance, diagnosis, and response / Roger S. Nasci
- Surveillance, diagnosis, and response: integration of strategies / Sherrilyn Wainwright
- Confronting vector-borne diseases in an age of ecologic change / David M. Morens
- The vector biology program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Adriana Costero
- Appendixes.