Cutaneous Infestations and Insect Bites

This outstanding source, presents -- in one convenient volume -- the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of changes due to infestation with scabies, and pediculosis, and secondary to arthropod bites including other mites, mosquitos, fleas, bees, spiders, and many others. Detailed in this text are clinical manifestations of scabies, pediculosis, and other arthropod bites, as well as their epidemiology, modes of transmission, pathogenesis including possible immunologic mechanism, therapy and prevention. This mandatory volume assures authoritative, state-of-the-art information for dermatologists, family practitioners, pediatricians and other primary care physicians, entomologists, epidemiologists, parasitologists, infectious disease specialists, public health workers, specialists in preventive medicine, medical and graduate students in these disciplines, and undergraduate students in biology, zoology, and parasitology. Book jacket.Orkin, Milton is the author of 'Cutaneous Infestations and Insect Bites' with ISBN 9780824772734 and ISBN 0824772733.