Sunday, February 8, 2009

The Year in Allergy

The Year in Allergy Volume 3
by S. Hasan Arshad (Editor), Simon T. Holgate (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 346 pages
* Publisher: Clinical Publishing; 1st edition (September 30, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1904392601

Book Description
In this book, the editors have assembled an expert team of international experts to select the recent papers that are shaping thinking in the field of allergy, within the broad areas of epidemiology, pathogenesis, pathophysiology and treatment modalities for allergic diseases. Each paper is summarized and reviewed and then placed in its clinical context, thus assisting the reader to adapt his or her own practice to the latest developments in a considered way.

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Diseases of Mites and Ticks

Diseases of Mites and Ticks
by Jan Bruin (Editor), L.P.S. van der Geest (Editor)

Product Details
* Hardcover: 350 pages
* Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 1, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1402096941

Book Description
The current collection of twenty-four papers is a mixture of primary research articles and literature reviews, presenting a broad overview of the developments in about all possible aspects of acarine diseases, stretching from basic pathology to microbial pest control. The pathogens include fungi, bacteria, and protozoa (as well as an occasional virus and unidentified organism), the hosts are mites and ticks from a great variety of taxa (e.g., Eriophyidae, Ixodidae, Oribatida, Phytoseiidae, Psoroptida, Tarsonemidae, Tetranychidae, Varroidae). These taxa include many infamous mites and ticks, which cause tremendous economical losses throughout the world, for example in greenhouse and field-grown agricultural crops, life stock (cattle, sheep), apiculture, and man. The taxa also include commercially available biocontrol agents, whose mass rearings need to be protected against pathogens.

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