Advances in Parasitology: Volume 57

ISBN-13: 9780120317578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 396 str.

J. R. Baker; R. Muller; D. Rollinson

Opis

The Advances in Parasitology series contains in-depth reviews on current topics of interest in contemporary parasitology. It includes medical studies on parasites of major influence, such as trypanosomiasis and scabies, and more traditional areas, such as zoology, taxonomy, and life history, which shape current thinking and applications.

• Series has the second highest ISI impact factor in the parasitology group (4.818 in 2002)
• Contributors are international experts in the field

Spis treści

Canine Leishmaniasis
Sexual Biology of Schistosomes
Review of the trematode genus Ribeiroia (Psilostomidae): Ecology, life history, and pathogenesis with special emphasis on the amphibian malformation problem
The Trichuris muris system: a paradigm of resistance and susceptibility to intestinal nematode infection.
Scabies: New Future for a Neglected Disease

O autorze

Professor David Rollinson is a Merit Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he leads a research team in the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for schistosomiasis. He has had a long fascination with parasites and the diseases that they cause, this has involved him in many overseas projects especially in Africa. He is on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of parasitic diseases, the editor of Advances in Parasitology and a former President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. His research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, which combines detailed molecular studies in the laboratory with ongoing collaborative studies in endemic areas of disease, to explore the intriguing world of parasites in order to help control and eliminate parasitic diseases.