Parasites and Infectious Disease: Discovery by Serendipity and Otherwise
Autor Gerald Eschen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mai 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521858823
ISBN-10: 0521858828
Pagini: 366
Ilustrații: 20 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0521858828
Pagini: 366
Ilustrații: 20 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 159 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface; Prologue; Introduction; 1. African trypanosomes and their VSGs; 2. Malaria: the real killer; 3. The HIV-AIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection: the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of artificial selection; 4. Lyme disease: a classic emerging disease; 5. The discovery of ivermectin: a 'crap shoot', or not?; 6. 'You came a long way to see a tree'; 7. Infectious disease and modern epidemiology; 8. The 'Unholy Trinity' and the geohelminths: an intractable problem?; 9. Hookworm disease: insidious, stealthily treacherous; 10. The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus: an amazing story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land; 11. The schistosomes: split-bodied flukes; 12. Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis: Their life cycles and a genius at work; 13. Trichinosis and Trichinella spp. (all eight of them, or is it nine?); 14. Phylogenetics: a contentious discipline; 15. Toxoplasma gondii, Sarcocystis neurona, and Neospora caninum: the worst of the coccidians?; Summary.
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Descriere
Engaging introduction to the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology.