Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology is a fully searchable abstracts database of internationally published research on medical and veterinary entomology, covering not only insects but also other arthropods that are of medical and veterinary importance in the broadest sense.

Selected from the applied life sciences database CAB Abstracts, it includes the latest research on the subject, including taxonomy, molecular genetics, biochemistry, physiology, behaviour, ecology, faunistics, pesticides, entomopathogens and natural enemies, other control methods and sociocultural aspects of mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, lice, cockroaches, scorpions and other relevant arthropods of medical and veterinary importance (including wild animals as well as domestic ones); and also all aspects of bacterial and viral diseases transmitted by arthropod vectors. Invasive arthropods are covered if harmful to man, animals or domestic environments.

Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology is updated weekly online, delivering all the latest searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books about medical and veterinary entomology.

Created and indexed by subject specialists, it provides access to these abstracts using comprehensive indexing and classification codes. It includes a fully searchable backfile to 1973 of over 250,000 abstracts with over 12,000 new records added each year.

Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology is also available in print as a monthly journal with author, subject and serials cited indexes.

 

 

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Allergenic arthropods

All aspects, including the biology and control, of arthropods which are allergenic to humans and other animals, such as:

• – Also includes the study of arthropod allergens- house dust mites (Dermatophagoides, etc)
• – cockroaches (Blattaria)
• – non-biting midges (Chironomidae)
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Blood-feeding arthropods

All aspects, including biology and control, of haematophagous or blood-feeding arthropods, such as

• – biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)
• – black flies (Simuliidae)
• • – chiggers (Trombiculidae)
• • – fleas (Siphonaptera)
• – horse flies (Tabanidae)
• • • – lice (Phthiraptera)
    • – mosquitoes (Culicidae)

    – sandflies (Phlebotominae)

  – ticks (Ixodoidea)

• • – triatomine bugs (Triatominae)

   

Carrion and dung insects and mites

All aspects, including the behaviour and ecology, of arthropods associated with animal carrion, carcasses and faeces. Includes:

• • – blow flies (Calliphoridae)

  – carrion beetles (Silphidae)

• • – dung beetles (Scarabaeidae)
  • – dung flies (Scathophagidae)
• – flesh flies (Sarcophagidae)
• – house flies (Muscidae)

Disease vectors and intermediate hosts

All aspects, including biology and control, of arthropod vectors of diseases caused by viruses, bacteria and parasites. Such vectors include:

• • – Arthropod intermediate hosts of parasites, such as cyclopoid copepepod intermediate hosts of guineaworm (Dracunculus).
  • • – biting midges (Ceratopogonidae)

    – black flies (Simuliidae)

  • – chiggers (Trombiculidae)
  • – fleas (Siphonaptera)

  – lice (Phthiraptera)

• – mosquitoes (Culicidae)
• • – sandflies (Phlebotominae)
• – ticks (Ixodoidea)
• • – triatomine bugs (Triatominae)

   

• Forensic entomology

  • – association between arthropods and carrion or carcasses
  • – medico-legal entomology
  • • – use of arthropods to determine post-mortem interval and/or post-mortem history of human corpses

   

Other aspects of arthropods in relation to public health and animal health 

• – arthropods and human therapeutics
• • – arthropod phobias
• • – cultural entomology

  – delusional parasitoses

• • – medicinal uses of arthropod products, such as honey, propolis and royal jelly

  – urban entomology

 

Parasitic arthropods and arthropod parasitoses

All aspects, including biology and control, of arthropods parasitic on man and wild and domestic vertebrates, and the diseases that they cause. These include:

• – bot flies (Gasterophilidae)
• • – chiggers (Trombiculidae)

  – ectoparasitic flies (Hippoboscidae, Nycteribiidae, Streblidae)

• • – fleas (Siphonaptera)
  • – lice (Phthiraptera)
• – follicle mites (Demodecidae)
• – parasitic crustaceans (Branchiura, Cirripedia, Copepoda and Isopoda)
• • – scab mites (Psoroptidae, etc)
  • – scabies mites (Sarcoptidae)
  • – ticks (Ixodidae, Argasidae, Nuttalliellidae)

  – tongue worms (Pentastomida)

• – warble flies (Oestridae)

 

Pest management and vector control

All aspects of the management and control of arthropods of medical and veterinary importance. Subjects covered include:

• • • – biological control, natural enemies (entomopathogens, parasites, parasitoids, predators)
    • • – environmental management

      – genetic engineering

    • • – habitat manipulation

      – host resistance

    • – immunization

    – insect repellents

  • – insect attractants

  – pesticides

• – pesticide resistance
• – sterile insect technique
• – trapping
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Synanthropic and zoophilic arthropods

All aspects, including biology and control, of arthropods which are associated with buildings (houses, hospitals, restaurants, etc) and/or humans more generally, or which are intimately associated with wild or domestic vertebrates or their nests and burrows. Includes:

• • – arthropod faunas of birds’ nests and animal burrows
  • – cockroaches (Blattaria)
  • – keratin-eating insects

  – lachryphagous or tear-drinking moths (Lepidoptera)

• • – pest ants (Formicidae)

  – silverfish (Thysanura)

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Vector-borne diseases

All aspects of vector-borne viral diseases and disease agents (arboviruses), including:

• – bluetongue
• – dengue
• – Japanese encephalitis
• – West Nile fever
• – yellow fever

All aspects of vector-borne bacterial, rickettsial and spirochaetal diseases and disease agents, including:

• – anaplasmosis
• – ehrlichiosis
• – heartwater
• – Lyme borreliosis
• – plague
• – Q fever
• – scrub typhus
• – spotted fevers

Selected aspects (epidemiology, vector-parasite relationships, vector control) of vector-borne diseases caused by protozoa, including:

• – babesiosis
• • – leishmaniasis

  – malaria

• – trypanosomiasis

Selected aspects (epidemiology, vector-parasite relationships, vector control) of vector-borne diseases caused by helminths

• – cestodes
• – acanthocephalans
• • – nematodes (e.g. filariasis and onchocerciasis)

 

Venomous, stinging and poisonous arthropods

All aspects, including the biology and control, of insects and other arthropods which sting or are venomous or poisonous to vertebrates, such as:

• • • – ants (Formicidae) 

    – bees (Apidae)

  • • – blister beetles (Meloidae)

    – caterpillars (Lepidoptera) and spiders (Araneae) with urticating hairs– wasps (Vespidae)

  • – scorpions (Scorpiones)

  – venomous spiders (Atrax, Latrodectus, Loxosceles, Phoneutria, etc)

• – wasps (Vespidae)
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• All aspects of the biochemistry and molecular biology of toxins and venoms of insects and arachnids, including apamin, cantharidin, mastoparan and melittin.

 

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