Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Description

Medical entomology is concerned with the impact of insects and related arthropods on the mental and physical health of humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. Medicolegal forensic entomology includes arthropod involvement in events such as murder, suicide and rape, but also includes physical abuse and contraband trafficking. Since the earth is a predominantly arthropod world, it is not uncommon that we mere humans comes in contact with these creatures. They make the world go round, as they pollinate, eat other arthropods, eat living plants and trees, dead plants and trees, living vertebrates, dead vertebrates and vertebrate dung and urine and a lot of other things. Entomology is the study of insects, including related arthropods. Insects are involved with virtually every part of our lives; they are pests that eat our food, our houses, our animals, and are vectors that spread sickness and disease. But insects aren’t all bad! Many insects are beneficial pollinators, decomposers of dead materials, and useful in the biocontrol of unwanted pests. Entomologists study insects to help us manage pests, or learn how to better use them to our advantage. Veterinary epidemiology and evidence-based veterinary medicine provide overlapping sets of tools which can be used to approach these new challenges. In clinical practice, there is now a daily need for valid, up-to-date information about diagnosis, therapy and prevention. This situation is complicated by the inadequacy of traditional sources for this type of information, since they may be out-of-date, they are frequently wrong, it may be ineffective (didactic CPD), too overwhelming in volume, or too variable in validity. This book will serve as a valuable reference source on this subject and would be of great importance for the students, teachers and researchers.