Arthropod Borne Diseases

1. General comments and importance of arthropod-related diseases.- 2. Epidemiology of vector-borne diseases.- 3. Blood sucking insects and history.- 4. Blood sucking, vector-parasite relationship and transmission of diseases.- 5. Generalities on arboviruses.- 6. Yellow fever.- 7. Dengue.- 8. Other flaviviruses.- 9. Togaviridae.- 10. Bunyaviruses.- 11. Plague and tularemia.- 12. Rickettsial infections, Bartonella infections and coxiellosis.- 13. Borreliosis: Lyme disease and relapsing fever.- 14. Ehrlichiosis.- 15. Anaplasmosis.- 16. Leishmaniasis.- 17. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease).- 18. Sleeping sickness, nagana.- 19. Other trypanosomiasis.- 20. Malaria.- 21. Babesiosis.- 22. Theileriosis.- 23. Hepatozoonosis.- 24. Lymphatic filariasis.- 25. Onchocerciasis.- 26. Mansonelliasis.- 27. Dirofilariasis.- 28. Loiasis.- 29. Thelaziosis (canine eye-worm).- 30. Habronemosis.- 31. Flies.- 32. Sucking and biting lice.- 33. Fleas.- 34. Diseases caused by Acari (ticks and mites).- 35. Other irritating Arthropods (beetles, bugs, centipedes etc.).- 36. Allergy to bites of hematophagous arthropods.- 37. Geoprocessing and expected distribution of diseases (including deforestation, global warming and other changes).- 38. Wolbachia: influence on pathogeny, treatment and control of arthropod borne diseases.

Carlos Brisola Marcondes has worked on medical entomology since 1974, publishing three books (one of them on arthropod borne diseases and another in the 2nd edition), 16 chapters and almost 90 papers on indexed scientific journals. He concluded his Ph. D. in 1997, and has worked mostly on Phlebotominae, Triatominae and Culicidae, besides related diseases. He has supervised several students and collaborated with many researchers in Brazil, US, UK and other countries, publishing with ca. 150 collaborators.