TY - BOOK ID - 14305127 TI - Vector biology, ecology and control PY - 2010 SN - 9048124573 9786612831829 9048124581 1282831828 9400791275 PB - Dordrecht ; London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Insect pests -- Control. KW - Insects as carriers of disease. KW - Insects. KW - Insects as carriers of disease KW - Insect pests KW - Public Health Practice KW - Pest Control KW - Arthropod Vectors KW - Insect Control KW - Communicable Disease Control KW - Insect Vectors KW - Public Health KW - Disease Vectors KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Disease Transmission, Infectious KW - Health Care KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Ecology KW - Transmission of Disease KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Control KW - Control. KW - Insect control KW - Insects KW - Medical entomology KW - Extermination KW - Life sciences. KW - Public health. KW - Infectious diseases. KW - Tropical medicine. KW - Ecology. KW - Applied ecology. KW - Invertebrates. KW - Life Sciences. KW - Tropical Medicine. KW - Applied Ecology. KW - Infectious Diseases. KW - Public Health. KW - Arthropod vectors KW - Emerging infectious diseases. KW - Emerging infections KW - New infectious diseases KW - Re-emerging infectious diseases KW - Reemerging infectious diseases KW - Communicable diseases KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Diseases, Tropical KW - Hygiene, Tropical KW - Medicine KW - Public health, Tropical KW - Sanitation, Tropical KW - Tropical diseases KW - Medical climatology KW - Environmental protection KW - Nature conservation KW - Invertebrata KW - Animals KW - Ecology . KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Diseases. KW - Experimental Organisms. KW - Technique. KW - Human beings KW - Illness KW - Illnesses KW - Morbidity KW - Sickness KW - Sicknesses KW - Epidemiology KW - Pathology KW - Sick KW - Diseases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14305127 AB - The control of mosquitoes and other insect vectors of human pathogens in an area-wide, environmentally and sustainable way is critical to solving global health problems in the developing world but also to industrialized countries that already have in place efficient vector control programs. The rapid spread of West Nile virus through the United States provides one example of how even a highly developed country can be relatively powerless against the spread of mosquito-borne disease. This volume illustrates how the efforts over half a century of a single investigator, Mir S. Mulla, and his students and collaborators have achieved sustainable vector insect control in regions of the world extending from the south-western United States to south-east Asia. These control strategies have been refined over these decades and now are employed in a diversity of ecosystems. Increased public awareness of global health and the importance placed on this for the future well-being of the entire human population makes the deployment and refinement of these strategies even more timely. ER -