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Klappentext This 1914 book was written as an exploration into the role of biting flies in the transmission of disease. Zusammenfassung This 1914 book was written as an exploration into the role of biting flies in the transmission of disease. Attention is focused on the modes of life occupied by the insects! the means by which infections are transmitted! and preventative measures through which infection could be avoided. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Diptera - general description and classification; 3. Biting-flies as carriers of disease; 4. Orthorrhapha Nematocera; 5. Family Phychodidæ (moth-flies and sand-flies); 6. Diseases carried by Phlebotomus - pappataci fever; 7. Family Culicidæ (gnats or mosquitoes); 8. Culicidæ (mosquitoes) continued. Classification; 9. Anopheline-transmitted diseases; 10. Culcinæ; 11. Diseases transmitted by Culcinæ. Yellow fever, dengue, bird malaria, etc.; 12. Diseases transmitted by Anophelinæ and Culcinæ. Filariasis; 13. Orthorrhapha Brachycera; 14. Family Tabanidæ (breeze-flies, cleggs, horse-flies, gad-flies, seroot-flies); 15. Cyclorrhapa Schizophora; 16. The tsetse-flies - genus Glossina wied., 1830; 17. Glossina and disease. The Trypanosomes; 18. Glossina and disease (continued); 19. Stomoxys; 20. Infections transmitted by Stomoxys; 21. Lyperosia; 22. Family Hippoboscidæ (tick-flies); 23. Infections transmitted by Hippoboscidæ; Index.
