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giardia, entamoeba, cryptosporidium, and cyclospora
1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations.
The Pathogenic Enteric Protozoa: Giardia, Entamoeba, Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora compromise the health of millions of people, largely from developing nations. These protozoan parasitic agents contribute significantly to the staggering caseload of diarrheal disease morbidity encountered in developing world nations. Compounding the issue of their mere presence is the fact that standard ova and parasite exams frequently do not detect these infections. Detectable stages may be shed intermittently or require specialized staining procedures. Added to this is the often large number of asymptomatic carriers who serve as reservoirs for infecting others. These parasites are also not strangers to more developed nations, having responsibility for both small and large-scale disease outbreaks. In such settings they may be even more difficult to detect simply because they are frequently overlooked in the grand scheme of disease causing possibilities. They share common features: all are Protozoa, all possess trophic stages that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract, all have the ability to produce disease and in some instances death, and all produce environmentally stable cysts or oocysts, which ensure their transmissibility.
Section 1. Epidemiology -- 1. Epidemiology and zoonotic potential of Giardia infections / R.C. Andrew Thompson -- 2. Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar, the non-identical twins / C. Graham Clark -- 3. Epidemiology and strain variation of Cryptosporidium / Rachel M. Chalmers and David P. Casemore -- 4. Cyclospora cayetanensis : an emergent and still perplexing coccidian parasite / Charles R. Sterling and Ynes R. Ortega -- Section 2. Host parasite interactions -- 5. Antigenic variation of the VSP genes of Giardia lamblia / Rodney D. Adam and Theodore E. Nash -- 6. Pathogenesis and immunity to Entamoeba histolytica / Jessica L. Tarleton and William A Petri Jr. -- 7. Innate and T cell-mediated immune responses in cryptosporidiosis / Carol R. Wyatt and Vincent McDonald -- Section 3. Treatment and Control -- 8. Rationale approaches to treating Cryptosporidium / Jan R. Mead and Pablo Okhuysen -- 9. Inactivation and removal of enteric protozoa in water / Frank W. Schaefer, III, Marilyn M. Marshall and Jennifer L. Clancy -- 10. Monitoring of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in water in the UK and US / Jennifer L. Clancy and Paul R. Hunter -- Section 4. Genomics -- 11. Entamoeba histolytica genome / James J. McCoy and Barbara J. Mann -- 12. Cryptosporidium parvum genomics : impact on research and control / Guan Zhu and Mitchell S. Abrahamsen.
edited by Charles R. Sterling and Rodney D. Adam.
Includes bibliographical references and index.