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By Wallace Peters. 304 pp., illustrated. London, Wolfe, 1992. $140. ISBN 0-8151-6679-6. (Distributed in the U.S. by Mosby-Year Book, St. Louis).

Arthropods transmit devastating infections that affect millions of humans. There is hardly a person alive who has not suffered from arthropod bites, stings, or parasitism. Nevertheless, these organisms are not well known to most medical personnel. The purpose of this atlas is to provide an extensive look at the medically important arthropods and to supplement textbooks of parasitology and medical entomology that are "illuminating but dully illustrated." The atlas succeeds admirably.

An initial chapter on the classification of extant arthropods is followed by three major sections dealing with arthropods as vectors, parasites, and agents of envenomation. These sections are subdivided . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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