Wallace Peters

The Arthropoda include many species of Insecta such as mosquitoes that transmit viral, bacterial and other diseases of major importance to man and animals including, for example, yellow fever and malaria. Other arthropods such as the Arachnida are also of importance through their role as disease vectors or by causing envenomation. This book containing 990 illustrations, mostly colour photographs, is the first to illustrate examples of the whole gamut of the Arthropoda in relation to the diseases of Man and of other clinically important conditions, eg, direct infestation of the skin and other organs.

This work marked the beginning of an era when the cure of malaria with antimalarial drugs became seriously menaced by the emergence of drug resistance on a global scale. The book embraces current knowledge of the nature of the parasites and the host responses, the development of drugs and drug resistance, techniques for the experimental and clinical investigations of drugs and the role of chemotherapy in the management of malaria. The references are extensive and an Addendum covers the period between the submission of the initial manuscript and its final printing.

xxv, 406 p. : 24 cm

This multiauthor volume reviews the different chemical groups of antimalarial drugs, their development and modes of action as well as the problems of drug resistance and its prevention.

Completely updated, restyled and extended to 1101 Figs. Versions in French and Mandarin.

This was the first systematic list of butterflies of Africa South of the Sahara since the classic book of Seitz published in 1925. Much of the author's work was based on the collection of the National Collection in the British Museum of Natural History in South Kensington, London.