Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of tick-borne infections of humans / David T. Dennis and Joseph F. Piesman -- The biology of tick vectors of human disease / Daniel E. Sonenshine -- The tick: a different kind of host for human pathogens / Ulrike G. Munderloh, Steven D. Jauron, and Timothy J. Kurtti -- Management of ticks and tick-borne diseases / Howard S. Ginsberg and Kirby C. Stafford III -- The clinical approach to the patient with a possible tick-borne illness / Jesse L. Goodman -- The human reaction to ticks / Uwe U. Müller-Doblies and Stephen K. Wikel -- Tick systematics and identification / James E. Keirans and Lance A. Durden -- Colorado tick fever and related coltivirus infections / Anthony A. Marfin and Grant L. Campbell -- Tick-borne encephalitis / Patricia A. Nuttall and Milan Labuda -- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever / Felicity J. Burt and Robert Swanepoel -- Lyme borreliosis / Allen C. Steere, Jenifer Coburn, and Lisa Glickstein -- Tularemia / Edward B. Hayes -- Human granulocytic anaplasmosis / Jesse L. Goodman -- Human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis / J. E. Dawson ... [et al.] --

Other tick-borne ehrlichioses, including ehrlichia ewingii / Christopher D. Paddock, Allison M. Liddell, and Gregory A. Storch -- Relapsing fever / Alan G. Barbour -- Rocky mountain spotted fever and other spotted fever group rickettsioses / Kevin R. Macaluso and Abdu F. Azad -- Mediterranean spotted fever and other tick-borne rickettsioses / Pierre-Edouard Fournier and Didier Raoult -- Q Fever / Herbert A. Thompson, David T. Dennis, and Gregory Dasch -- Human babesiosis / Mary J. Homer and David H. Persing -- Geographic distributions of tick-borne diseases and their vectors / Richard N. Brown, Robert S. Lane, and David T. Dennis -- Clinical and pathologic atlas of tick-borne diseases / J. Stephen Dumler and Christopher D. Paddock.