Mite-Human Interactions
Diaz, James H. (Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, LSU School of Public Health, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology at the LSUHSC School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
Mite-Human Interactions: Nuisances, Vectors, Parasites, Allergens, and Commensals offers coverage on the neglected topic of mites, their diversity, and the conditions caused or vectored by them. The first part of the book differentiates the types of mites as arthropod-borne infectious disease vectors (scrub typhus, rickettsialpox), as bothersome pests (animal and itch mites), as potential allergens (dust and food mites), and as human commensal...