Climate, Ticks and Disease (eBook)

Pat Nuttall (Herausgeber)

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2021
544 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78924-965-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections, and provide predictions for the future.

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This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The effect of climate on the physiology and behaviour of ticks is stressed, including potentially critical impacts on the tick microbiome. Given that the notoriety of ticks derives from pathogens they transmit, the book considers whether changes in climate affect vector capacity. Ticks transmit a remarkable range of micro- and macro-parasites many of which are pathogens of humans and domesticated animals. The intimacy between a tick-borne agent and a tick vector means that any impacts of climate on a tick vector will impact tick-borne pathogens. Most obviously, such impacts will be apparent as changes in disease incidence and prevalence. The evidence that climate change is affecting diseases caused by tick-borne pathogens is considered, along with the potential to make robust predictions of future events. This book contains:

Expert opinions and predictions.
Global coverage of trends in ticks and disease.
In-depth examination of climate change and tick distribution links.

This book is suitable for researchers and students studying zoology, biological sciences, medical entomology, animal health, veterinary medicine, epidemiology, parasitology, and climate change impacts; and for those concerned with public health planning or livestock management where ticks and tick-borne pathogens pose a threat.

Autor

Pat Nuttall is Emeritus Professor of Arbovirology in the Zoology Department, University of Oxford, and Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Current research interests are in viruses transmitted by ticks, and how tick saliva promotes virus transmission. Prior to re-joining the University of Oxford in 2013, she was employed by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council, becoming Director of the Institute of Virology & Environmental Microbiology in 1995 and Director of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in 2001. Her research resulted in the first NERC spin out company, Evolutec Ltd. She created Wolfson Innovate to promote college entrepreneurism, now expanded to Oxford University's All-Innovate venture. Distinctions include: Ivanovsky Medal for Virology, Russian Academy of Sciences; Order of the British Empire for services to environmental sciences; LeConte Scholar, Georgia Southern University, USA; Honorary Professor, Nankia University, China; Chevalier dans l'ordre du Mérite Agricole, France; Harry Hoogstraal award, American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Rezensionen

This work is valuable not only for the wealth of knowledge it conveys, but also for highlighting the areas where our knowledge is most limited. It shows, for example, that a complete picture of the geographic distribution of TBDs is out of reach, since available data on ticks and the infections they transmit in many countries and regions (especially in south-eastern Asia) are extremely limited or nonexistent. Pat Nuttall as the Editor deserves special recognition for her service to the research community in bringing together an authoritative group of recognized specialists, organizing their contributions, and providing excellent informative synopses to each section as well as the final synopsis to the entire book. This monumental book is a valuable resource for those working in a broad range of disciplines, including medical acarology, entomology and zoology, parasitology, epidemiology, environmental science, and public health to name a few. A copy of the book would make a good investment for research laboratories and investigators specializing in any of these fields. It should be available from every library serving specialists and decision-makers in the broader areas of biology, medicine, environment, and public policy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: CABI Climate Change Series
• Reihe/Serie: CABI Climate Change Series
• Co-Autor: Saeed Alasmari, Neil Alexander, Abdelghafar Alkishe, Reiko Arai, Armanda Bastos, Gervasio Henrique Bechara, John Beier, Giovanni Benelli, Joshua Benoit, Dennis Bente, Richard Bishop, Adrien Blisnick, René Bødker, Fernando Boinas, Sarah Bonnet, Nathalie Boulanger, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano, Cyril Caminade, Jirí Cerny´, Roxanne Albertha Charles, Ali Reza Chavshin, Rosalind Cornforth, Neil Coughlan, Peter Cox, Lauren Culler, Milan Daniel, Vlasta Danielova, Mona Dehhaghi, Maria Diuk-Wasser, James P Duffy, Olivier Duron, Lars Eisen, Rebecca Eisen, Jana Elsterová, Koray Ergünay, Agustín Estrada-Peña, Li-Qun Fang, Natalia Fernández-Ruiz, Erol Fikrig, Serhii Filatov, Durland Fish, Janet Foley, José de la Fuente, Roman Ganta, Aysen Gargili Keles, Robin Beat Gasser, Abdul Ghafar, Naftaly Githaka, Lucy Gilbert, Maryna Golovchenko, Yuval Gottlieb, Ernest Gould, Jeremy Gray, Libor Grubhoffer, Gilles J. Guillemin, Kayleigh M. Hansford, Charles Hart, John E. Healy, Deborah Hemming, Stephen Higgs, Andrew Hoodless, Yan-Jang S. Huang, Bernard Hudson, Chris Huntingford, Peter Irwin, Abdul Jabbar, Nicholas Johnson, Esther Kanduma, Sirri Kar, Maria Kazimirova, Neil Kaye, Thomas C. Kelly, Lene Jung Kjaer, Agatha Onyemowo Kolo, Eduard Korenberg, Nina Król, Chi-Chien Kuo, Timothy J. Kurtti, Xavier de Lamballerie, Patrick A. Leighton, Hao Li, L. Robbin Lindsay, Wei Liu, Geoffrey E. Lynn, Ilya Maclean, Ben J. Mans, Maristela Martins de Camargo, Karen D. McCoy, Jolyon M. Medlock, Ulrike G. Munderloh, Atle Mysterud, Sukanya Narasimhan, Anna Obiegala, Dasiel Obregón Alvarez, Nicholas H. Ogden, Mari H. Ogihara, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Charlotte Oskam, Domenico Otranto, Kennan J. Oyen, Neha Pandey, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, A. Townsend Peterson, John H. O. Pettersson, Martin Pfeffer, L. Paul Phipps, Heather J. Plumpton, Tatjana Pustahija, Ram Raghavan, Ryan O.M Rego, Annapaola Rizzoli, Isobel Ronai, Franz Rubel, Natalie Rudenko, Benjamin Ruiwen, Rufus Sage, Abdallah M. Samy, Gustavo Seron Sanches, Isabel Kinney Ferreira Santos, Marcello Otake Sato, Megumi Sato, Richard Schloeffel, Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh, Ladislav Šimo, Sunit Kumar Singh, Daniel E. Sonenshine, Morgan Sparey, Frederic Stachurski, Snorre Stuen, Matias Pablo Juan Szabó, DeMar Taylor, Mike Teglas, Sam R. Telford III, Saravanan Thangamani, Georgia Titcomb, Attila J. Trájer, Michael Turell, Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Laurence Vial, Margarita Villar, Richard Wall, André B. B. Wilke, G. R. William Wint, Jianhong Wu, Zbigniew Zajac, Xue Zhang
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: African swine fever • anaplasmosis • babesiosis • climate change • climate model • Crimean Congo haemorrhagic disease • dermatophilosis • Ehrlichiosis • Kyasanur Forest disease • Lyme borreliosis • rickettsiosis • spotted fever • theileriosis • tick-borne disease • tick-borne encephalitis • tick-borne pathogen • tick-borne relapsing fever • tick microbiome • tick physiology • tick vector
• ISBN-10: 1-78924-965-1 / 1789249651
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78924-965-1 / 9781789249651