A Colour Atlas of Medical Entomology

An illustrated atlas which enables clinicians and researchers to identify arthropods of medical and public health importance. Each chapter covers identification, life cycle and condition caused, and micrographs of every specimen at relevant stages of its life cycle are included.

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This atlas should enable users to identify arthropods of medical and public health importance and to assess their significance; it will also assist in the accurate diagnosis of the patient's condition and the prevention of recurrence. Each chapter covers the identification, life cycle and habits of the causative stage and its medical/public health significance. Each section is liberally illustrated with colour photographs/micrographs of the specimens at relevant stages of its life cycle, habitat and the condition(s) it causes. This book should be of interest to professionals in medical entomology, tropical medicine physicians, environmental health specialists.