Citation

Goddard J, Currier M. J. Agromed. 2004; 9(2): 95-102.

Affiliation

Bureau of Environmental Health, Mississippi Department of Health, P.O. Box 1700, Jackson, MS 39215, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19785209

Abstract

Insects, arachnids, and other medically important arthropods affect human health directly by bites, stings, and blisters, and indirectly by disease transmission. In this paper, three widely divergent cases of insect- or arachnid-caused human illness are presented--a spider bite, a mosquito-borne disease case, and an imaginary mite problem. Some key references are included for each topic, as well as editorial comment to add perspective.

Language: en