EPIDEMIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES  (2004)

Podboronov V.M.
The pathogens of human and animal diseases and the ticks
224 p.: ill.
ISBN 5-225-04300-3

   The monograph presents information on the epidemiology, microbiology, and biology of pathogens of human and animal diseases and characterizes the interaction of microorganisms with the body in the parasite-host system.Under detailed study are the mechanisms of nonspecific protection of ticks in their integration with bacterial pathogens, those that ensure the originality and efficiency of their interaction with microorganisms, and the pattern of viral behavior in the ticks in their single and mixed infection.
  Readership: microbiologists, epidemiologists, ecologists, parasitologists, as well as physicians and biologists of related professions.