Ecology and Control of Rodents of Public Health Importance
İÇİNDEKİLERCONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The importance of rodents in public health 2.1 General............. 2.2 Bacterial diseases......... 2.3 Viral diseases.......... 2.4 Scrub typhus.......... 2.5 Other rodent-borne diseases 2.6 The host-parasite relationship . . . 3. Ecology........................ 3.1 Identification of hosts and vectors.......... 3.2 Reproduction and growth of rodents......... 3.3 Population structure............. . . . 3.4 Movement patterns 3.5 The estimation of population numbers 3.6 Forecasting rodent outbreaks............ 3.7 The ecology of rodents in relation to different ecosystems 4. Rodent control and management . . 4.1 Environmental changes . . . . 4.2 Rodenticides........ 4.3 Other rodent control techniques 4.4 Integrated large-scale control . 5. Information and training......... 5.1 Information............ 5.2 Educational programmes and materials 6. Recommendations . Annex. Families of rodents, numbers of genera and species, distribution, representative genera, and associated human diseases References...............................  |
