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Bacterial diseases transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods are reviewed, including the aetiology and management of arthropod-transmitted diseases of man like bubonic plague, lyme disease and relapsing fevers. Transmission of other Borrelia-associated diseases is also reviewed, with data on rickettsioses, epidemic or endemic typhus and spotted fever vectors, tularemia, bartonellosis and others. Arthropod-transmitted diseases of animal domestic species and wildlife are also discussed. Aspects concerning vectored plant pathogens causing phloematic, xylematic and other diseases are also reviewed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Phoresy = movement, transport.

  2. 2.

    World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/en/.

  3. 3.

    In honor of W. Burgdorfer, medical entomologist.

  4. 4.

    Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA .

  5. 5.

    In transstadial transmission (also called trans-ovarial transmission ) the bacteria vertically infect the developing eggs inside the adult female, eventually passing to the embryo and larval stages. This process has the potential to confer an efficient vector capacity to all larvae descending from a single female.

  6. 6.

    The genus and species names honor H. T. Rickett and S. J. M. von Prowazek, who died during their pioneering studies on rickettsiae .

  7. 7.

    Diseases passed from animals to humans.

  8. 8.

    Tropism = movement. Positive tropism indicates displacement or orienting towards a given factor or space; negative tropism indicate movements in the opposite direction.

  9. 9.

    European Plant Protection Organization.

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