Ectoparasitic Diseases

James H. Diaz, MD, DrPH, is a Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the LSU School of Public Health in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Diaz’s current academic and clinical research interests include (1) occupational and environmental toxicology; (2) infectious diseases, poisonings, and injuries in international travelers; (3) emerging environmentally associated diseases and poisonings, particularly food-borne, water-borne, and vector-borne infectious diseases and poisonings; and (4) the impact of climate change on natural disasters and their public health outcomes. Dr. Diaz has published over 300 original articles and chapters in scientific journals and textbooks. Dr. Diaz currently authors the six-chapter section with updates on ectoparasitic infectious diseases in Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, the internationally recognized reference text on infectious diseases.

1. Introduction to Ectoparasitic Diseases
2. Pediculosis (Lice)
3. Trombidiosis (Larval Chigger Mites)
4. Scrub typhus (Larval Typhus Mites)
5. Scabies (Scabies Mites)
6. Rickettsialpox (Rat Mites)
7. Myiasis, Murine Typhus, Tungiasis, and Plague (Flies and Fleas)
8. Tick-transmitted Bacterial Diseases
9. Babesiosis
10. Tick-transmitted Viral Diseases
11. The Tick Sialome, Tick-transmitted Coinfections, and Tick Paralysis
12. Red Meat Allergies after Tick Bites
13. True Bugs (Order Hemiptera) as Ectoparasites: Bedbugs
14. Insect Repellents, Insecticides, and Vector Control
15. Delusional Ectoparasitosis (Morgellons Disease)
16. Conclusions