Keywords:
Parasitology.
;
Parasitology -- Research.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (465 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780124017016
Series Statement:
Issn Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=947421
DDC:
616.96
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Series Editors -- Editorial Board -- Advances in Parasitology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 - Northern Host-Parasite Assemblages: History and Biogeography on the Borderlands of Episodic Climate and Environmental Transition -- 1.1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.2. NORTHERN SYSTEMS AND PARASITES - SETTING THE STAGE -- 1.3. AN HISTORICAL (PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL) SETTING FOR THE ARCTIC -- 1.4. FAUNAL STRUCTURE - EVIDENCE FOR NORTHERN CONNECTIONS -- 1.5. BIODIVERSITY - HISTORY IN A COMPLEX NORTHERN FAUNA -- 1.6. TOOLS FOR BIODIVERSITY DISCOVERY -- 1.7. PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES TO BE RESOLVED -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 - Parasites in Ungulates of Arctic North America and Greenland: A View of Contemporary Diversity, Ecology, and Impact in a World Under Change -- 2.1. INTRODUCTION -- 2.2. ARCTIC UNGULATE HOSTS -- 2.3. NEMATODES -- 2.4. CESTODES -- 2.5. TREMATODES -- 2.6. PROTOZOA -- 2.7. ARTHROPODS -- 2.8. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 - Neorickettsial Endosymbionts of the Digenea: Diversity, Transmission and Distribution -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. TAXONOMY AND PHYLOGENY OF NEORICKETTSIA -- 3.3. ECOLOGY AND TRANSMISSION OF NEORICKETTSIAE -- 3.4. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF NEORICKETTSIA -- 3.5. PHYLOGENETIC ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN NEORICKETTSIA AND DIGENEA -- 3.6. ADVANCES IN GENOMICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF NEORICKETTSIA -- 3.7. GAPS IN CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 - Priorities for the Elimination of Sleeping Sickness -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. RISK -- 4.3. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- 4.4. BURDEN OF DISEASE -- 4.5. CONTROL -- 4.6. DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 - Scabies: Important Clinical Consequences Explained by New Molecular Studies -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. BIOLOGY/CLINICAL ASPECTS.
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5.3. CURRENT STRATEGIES TO CONTROL SCABIES ARE INADEQUATE -- 5.4. TOOLS TO FACILITATE RESEARCH ON SCABIES -- 5.5. SCABIES MITE INTESTINAL PROTEINS AS TARGETS TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVE THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION -- 5.6. SAR S 3, AN INTESTINAL SCABIES MITE SERINE PROTEASE DIGESTING EPIDERMAL PROTEIN -- 5.7. SSAP, AN ASPARTIC PROTEASE OF SCABIES MITES -- 5.8. INACTIVATED SCABIES MITE SERINE PROTEASE PARALOGUES (SMIPP-SS) INTERFERE WITH HUMAN COMPLEMENT -- 5.9. A SCABIES MITE PERITROPHIN IS A POTENTIAL TARGET OF HOST COMPLEMENT -- 5.10. COMPLEMENT INHIBITION BY SCABIES MITES PROMOTES STREPTOCOCCAL GROWTH IN VITRO -- 5.11. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 - Review: Surveillance of Chagas Disease -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRENDS -- 6.3. VECTOR SURVEILLANCE -- 6.4. MECHANISM OF COMMUNITY-BASED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS -- 6.5. HEALTH SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY-BASED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS -- 6.6. CHALLENGES -- 6.7. SITUATIONS OF OTHER INITIATIVES -- 6.8. CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- CONTENTS OF VOLUMESIN THIS SERIES -- Volume 41 -- Volume 42 -- Volume 43 -- Volume 44 -- Volume 45 -- Volume 46 -- Volume 47 -- Volume 48 -- Volume 49 -- Volume 50 -- Volume 51 -- Volume 52 -- Volume 53 -- Volume 54 -- Volume 55 -- Volume 56 -- Volume 57 -- Volume 58 -- Volume 59 -- Volume 60 -- Volume 61 -- Volume 62 -- Volume 63 -- Volume 64 -- Volume 65 -- Volume 66 -- Volume 67 -- Volume 68 -- Volume 69 -- Volume 70 -- Volume 71 -- Volume 72 -- Volume 73 -- Volume 74 -- Volume 75 -- Volume 76 -- Volume 77 -- Volume 78.
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