The Ecology of Malaria Vectors

This practical book covers all aspects of the biology of malaria vectors, with notes on the vectors of dengue.It is the first work in this field toconcentrate on mosquitoes, rather than covering all disease vectors. Authored by renowned field entomologist Jacques Derek Charlwood, it disseminates his vast experience working on mosquito biology, ecology and the evaluation of new vector control tools acrossfive continents over the past 40 years. Coveringall aspects from classification and systematics,population dynamics,vector control,to surveillance and sampling, epidemics,and a selection ofcase histories, the book also considers genetics and resistance, Aedes biology, and malaria and denguemodels. It is designed to fill the gap between very specialized texts and undergraduate books on general disease vectors, and is ideal as a textbook for postgraduate courses in entomology and mosquito vectors of disease.

Introduction Chapter 1: Classification and systematics Chapter 2: Mosquito life histories Chapter 3 The search for the host Chapter 4 Estimating Dispersal by capture-recapture experiment Chapter 5 Population dynamics Chapter 6 Mapping Chapter 7 Vectorial Capacity Chapter 8 Chemical Methods of Vector Control Chapter 9 Alternative methods of Vector Control Chapter 10 Surveillance and sampling Chapter 11 Epidemics Chapter 12 The diseases – Malaria, filariasis and dengue Chapter 13 Sampling techniques Chapter 14 Laboratory studies Chapter 15 Global Heating – ‘The future ain’t what it used to be’ Chapter 16 Some case histories Chapter 17 Some useful websites Glossary References

Jacques Derek Charlwood is Honorary Fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK; Honorary Fellow of Global Health and Tropical Medicine, IHMT, Lisbon, Portugal, Lecturer College of Health Sciences, Asmara, Eritrea. He has 42 years of working in the field in Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, São Tomé, Cambodia, Mozambique, Ghana, The Gambia and 100+ publications on malaria vectors.Charlwoodis known for his work on insecticide-treated bednets andwas the entomologist for the first African malaria vaccine trial (in Tanzania). He worked in the epicentre of drug resistance emergence in S.E. Asia (in Cambodia) and was the implementer of the PAMVERC trial (in Tanzania).