Very visual handbook aimed at veterinary professionals and dealing with everything related to fleas and ticks, focusing particularly on clinical issues in dogs and cats. The first part is entirely dedicated to fleas (including their identification, life cycle, clinical signs derived from flea infestation, flea allergy dermatitis (FAD), and prevention and control measures, among others). The second part describes thoroughly everything that involves ticks infestation (including species identification and their geographic distribution, feeding behaviour, the biting process, diseases transmitted by ticks, prevention and control measures, etc.).
CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. General flea anatomy
3. Flea life cycle
On-host component of life cycle
Environmental component of the life cycle
4. Control measures
Prioritizing aspects of flea control products/programs
Determining the goals of a flea control program
5. Pathology associated with fleas
Anemia 44
Tapeworms
Pruritus
Dermatitis
Potential flea-transmitted diseases
6. References
TICKS Jeanmarie Short
1. Introduction
2. General tick anatomy
Hard ticks
3. Tick feeding
4. Tick life cycle
Hard tick life cycle
5. Species identification
Rhipicephalus spp.
Amblyomma spp.
Dermacentor spp.
Ixodes spp.
Haemaphysalis longicornis
Otobius megnini
6. Tick removal
7. Prevention
8. References
