Main description:

This book comprehensively reviews the disease dynamics, distribution, surveillance, epidemiology, diagnosis, control strategies, and management of the desert malaria. It highlights the potential risks of unstable but often exacerbated malaria conflagration as epidemics in the middle of duned desert, a desert oasis, and desert-fringe regions. Further, it reveals the factors inveigled into desert environments due to extensive anthropogenic activities such as canalized irrigation projects, high-yielding new agriculture practices, human concentration, and increased trade. It addresses the impact of irrigation on the malarial dynamics and its coupling to the climate forcing. The book also offers a model for desert transformation into malaria heaven under the changed climatic conditions including high rainfall, humidity, and depletion in temperature. Lastly, it offers insight into malaria epidemiology and disease control in the desert's arid environments. This book is an essential resource for medical entomologists, parasitologists, epidemiologists, and public health researchers.

Contents:

Chapter 1: WORLD MALARIA SITUATION VIS-A-VIS DESERT ECOSYSYEMS

(i) Global malaria scenario

(ii) Asian malaria scenario

(iii) Indian malaria scenario

Chapter 2: DESERTS OF THE WORLD AND RESIDUAL MALARIA SOURCES

(i) Deserts and their malaria history

(ii) Saharan Desert and malaria

(iii) Middle-East Deserts and malaria

(iv) Great Indian Thar Desert and malaria

Chapter 3: ENVIRONMENT OF THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR DESERTS

(i) Topography, biota, landscapes, water sources

(ii) Extensive canalization

(iii) Changes in physiographic characteristics

(a) Rise in water table

(b) Rainfall, temperature and humidity

Chapter 4: EXTENSIVE CANALIZATION IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR

DESERTS

(i) Groundwater quality

(ii) Soil property

(iii) Land irrigability productibility

(iv) Canal sedimentation

(v) Crop pattern

(vi) Demography and human behaviour

(vii) Wetlands and sources of potable water

Chapter 5: ANOPHELINE FAUNA IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR DESERTS

(i) Classification of Anopheles

(ii) Species Identification and Phylogeny of Anopheles

(iii) Anopheles Species Complexes

(iv) Speciation, plasticity and genetic polymorphism

(v) Diversity Dominant Vector Species

(vi) Distribution of the Dominant Vector Species

Chapter 6: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALARIA IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR

DESERTS

(i) Dynamics of malaria prevalence

(ii) Focal outbreaks of malaria

(iii) Urban malaria

(iv) Quarymine malaria

(v) Border malaria

Chapter 7: EPIDEMICS OF MALARIA IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR

DESERTS

(i) Evolution of pathways of malaria

(ii) Epidemics and human behaviour

Chapter 8: AGROECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS ON MALARIA IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND

THE GREAT INDIAN THAR DESERTS

(i) Health impact of malaria

(ii) KAP in the Desert

(iii) Paradox about rice cultivation in the irrigated desert region and malaria

Chapter 9: MALARIA MANAGEMENT WITH VECTOR CONTROL IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE

GREAT INDIAN THAR

DESERTS

(i) Environmental control of vectors

(ii) Insecticidal control of vectors

(iii) Biological control of vectors

(iv) Genetic control of vectors

Chapter 10: MALARIA DIAGNOSIS IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR

DESERTS

Chapter 11: MALARIA IMMUNITY IN DESERT POPULATION IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT

INDIAN THAR DESERTS

Chapter 12: MALARIA CONTROL IN THE AFRICAN SAHARA AND THE GREAT INDIAN THAR

DESERTS

(i) Treatment policies

(ii) Antimalarials

(iii) Resistance development in malaria parasites

(iv) Drug pharmacokinetics and delivery