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Giardia and cryptosporidium : from molecules to disease /

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Other Authors: Cacciò, Simone M. (Editor), Fayer, R. (Editor), Mank, Theo G. (Editor), Ortega-Pierres, Guadalupe (Editor), Smith, H. V. (Huw V.) (Editor), Thompson, R. C. A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
Subjects:
Giardia.
Cryptosporidiosis > prevention & control.
Cryptosporidium.
Giardiasis > prevention & control.
Water Pollution > prevention & control.
Giardiasis > Prevention.
Diagnosis of Human Disease, (New March 2000)
Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000)
Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000)
Taxonomy and Evolution.
Techniques and Methodology.
Animal diseases.
Cryptosporidiosis.
Diagnosis.
Evolution.
Giardiasis.
Human diseases.
Man.
Molecular epidemiology.
Nomenclature.
Taxonomy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Impact of Giardia on Science and Society / R.C. Andrew Thompson
  • Cryptosporidium in Cattle : From Observing to Understanding / Ronald Fayer, Monica Santín and James M. Trout
  • Names Do Matter / Dwight D. Bowman
  • Centenary of the Genus Cryptosporidium : From Morphological to Molecular Species Identification / Jan S̆lapeta
  • Molecular Epidemiology of Human Cryptosporidiosis in Developing Countries / Lihua Xiao
  • Molecular Epidemiology and Typing of Non-human Isolates of Cryptosporidium / Una M. Ryan and Lihua Xiao
  • Insights Into the Molecular Detection of Giardia duodenalis : Implications for Epidemiology / Simone M. Cacciò, Marco Lalle, Relja Beck and Edoardo Pozio
  • Wildlife with Giardia : Villain, or Victim and Vector? / Susan J. Kutz, R.C. Andrew Thompson and Lydden Polley
  • The Role of Livestock in the Foodborne Transmission of Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp. to Humans / Brent R. Dixon
  • The Risk of Zoonotic Genotypes of Cryptosporidium spp. in Watersheds / Hussni O. Mohammed and Susan E. Wade
  • Clinical Presentation in Cryptosporidium-infected Patients / Laetitia M. Kortbeek
  • Molecular Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium and Giardia Infections / Paul R. Hunter
  • Advances in Diagnosis : is Microscopy Still the Benchmark? / Rachel M. Chalmers
  • Control of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Surface Water by Disinfection / Thomas M. Hargy, Jennifer L. Clancy and Lynn P. Landry
  • Towards Methods for Detecting UV-induced Damage in Individual Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis Oocysts by Immunofluorescence Microscopy / Huw V. Smith, B.H. Al-Adhami, Rosely A.B. Nichols, John R. Kusel and J. O'Grady
  • Effect of Environmental and Conventional Water Treatment Processes on Waterborne Cryptosporidium Oocysts / Brendon King, Alexandra Keegan, Chris Saint and Paul Monis
  • Methods for Genotyping and Subgenotyping Cryptosporidium spp. Oocysts Isolated During Water and Food Monitoring / Huw V. Smith, Rosely A.B. Nichols, Lisa Connelly and Christopher B. Sullivan
  • Intervention in Waterborne Disease / Gordon Nichols, Iain R. Lake, Rachel M. Chalmers, Graham Bentham, Florence C.D. Harrison, Paul R. Hunter, Sari Kovats, Chris Grundy, Steve Anthony, Hester Lyons, Maureen Agnew and Chris Proctor
  • Occurrence and Control of Naegleria fowleri in Drinking Water Wells / Charles P. Gerba, Barbara L. Blair, Payal Sarkar, Kelly R. Bright, R.C. Maclean and Francine Marciano-Cabral
  • Environmental Factors Influencing the Survival of Cyclospora cayetanensis / Ynes R. Ortega
  • Recent Advances in the Developmental Biology and Life Cycle of Cryptosporidium / Nawal Samih Hijjawi, Annika C. Boxell and R.C. Andrew Thompson
  • Basic Biology of Giardia lamblia : Further Studies on Median Body and Funis / Marlene Benchimol
  • Giardia intestinalis : a Microaerophilic Parasite with Mitochondrial Ancestry / Gloria León-Avila, José Manuel Hernández and Jorge Tovar
  • Cytoskeleton-based Lipid Transport in a Parasitic Protozoan, Giardia lamblia / Cynthia Castillo, Yunuen Hernandez, Sukla Roychowdhury and Siddhartha Das
  • Signalling During Giardia Differentiation / Tineke Lauwaet and Frances D. Gillin
  • Preliminary Analysis of the Cryptosporidium muris Genome / Giovanni Widmer, Eric London, Linghui Zhang, Guangtao Ge, Saul Tzipori, Jane M. Carlton and Joana C. da Silva
  • Proteomic Analyses in Giardia / Daniel Palm and Staffan G. Svärd
  • Proteomic and Genomic Approaches to Understanding the 'Power Plant' of Cryptosporidium / Lorenza Putignani, Sanya J. Sanderson, Cristina Russo, Jessica Kissinger, Donato Menichella and Jonathan M. Wastling
  • Energy Metabolism and Carbon Flow in Cryptosporidium parvum / Guan Zhu
  • The Surface Protein Repertoires of Cryptosporidium spp. and Other Apicomplexans / Thomas J. Templeton
  • Giardan : Structure, Synthesis, Regulation and Inhibition / Keriman Şener, Harry van Keulen and Edward L. Jarroll
  • Protein Kinase C in Giardia duodenalis : a Family Affair / M. Luisa Bazán-Tejeda, Raul Argüello-García, Rosa M. Bermúdez-Cruz, Martha Robles-Flores and Guadalupe Ortega-Pierres
  • Secretory Granule Biogenesis and the Organization of Membrane Compartments via SNARE Proteins in Giardia lamblia / Eliana V. Elías, Natalia Gottig, Rodrigo Quiroga and Hugo D. Lujan
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Cryptosporidium-induced Host Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics / Steven P. O'Hara, Xian-Ming Chen and Nicholas F. LaRusso
  • Pathogenic Mechanisms in Giardiasis and Cryptosporidiosis / Andre G. Buret
  • Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in Immunological Control of Cryptosporidial Infection / Naheed Choudhry, Mona Bajaj-Elliott and Vincent McDonald
  • Immune Response to Giardia Infection : Lessons from Animal Models / Steven M. Singer and Joel Kamda
  • Drug Treatment and Novel Drug Targets Against Giardia and Cryptosporidium / Jean-François Rossignol.