Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common DiseasesDoane, Rennie Wilbur
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Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Doane, Rennie Wilbur
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease
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comprehensive discussion of this subject.
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on Their Hosts. _Jour. Econom. Biology_, Vol. I, 1906, pp. 41-62.
Discusses injury due to mere presence of parasite in host; to the
migration of the parasite; loss to host by feeding of parasites;
injury by certain toxins.
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PROTOZOA
CALKINS, G.N. The Protozoa. _Osler's Mod. Med._, Vol. I, 1907, p.
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those that are transferred from host to host by insects.
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comprising sections on the causation of smallpox, syphilis and
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Same in _Lancet_, II, 1909, p. 460. Good summary of present
knowledge of the subject.
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Protozoa. Many parasitic forms are figured and described.
Bibliography.
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BACTERIA
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