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This chapter covers important arthropods, which endanger humans either by application of poison (as do scorpions and spiders) or by injection of agents of diseases (as do ticks, mites, mosquitoes, flies, fleas, lice, bugs, louse flies). In addition, vectors of agents of diseases such as vampire fish and blood licking bats are included. All 25 groups are presented under the following topics: name, geographic distribution, biology/morphology, symptoms of disease, diagnosis, pathway of infection, prophylaxis, incubation period, prepatent period, patency, chemotherapy and further reading.

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