The phenomena involved in infections of man and domestic animals with metazoan or protozoan parasites present formidable practical problems as well as a theoretical challenge to immunologists, molecular biologists, and evolu- tionary biologists. With respect to the public health and economic problems, malaria, for example, remains a major health problem with approximately 200 million people being infected yearly and, on the basis of World Health Organiza- tion estimates, more than 1 million children die each year of malaria infections (Chapter 4). This volume addresses state-of-the-art...
The phenomena involved in infections of man and domestic animals with metazoan or protozoan parasites present formidable practical problems as well as...