Parasitology /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2000.
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| Series: | Lifelines (Taylor & Francis)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to parasitology
- Parasites and parasitism
- The nature of parasitism
- Parasites' effect upon the host
- Host-parasite reactions
- Parasite life-cycles
- Protozoa
- The classification of parasitic protozoa
- Parasitic protozoa of economic importance
- Flagellated protozoa
- Spore-forming protozoans
- Biology of parasitic protozoa
- Platyhelminths
- Main characteristics
- Turbellarians
- Cestodes
- Trematodes (commonly known as flukes)
- Nematodes (commonly known as round worms)
- Nepatomorpha (commonly known as larviform worms)
- Acanthocephala (commonly known as spiny-headed worms)
- Tapeworms (Eucestoda)
- Cyclophyllidea or Taenioidea (tapeworms)
- Trematodes
- Nematodes
- Parasite examples grouped according to life-cycle
- Direct life-cycles
- The Monogenea: parasitic trematodes with only one host
- Parasitic protozoa with only one host
- Indirect life-cycles
- Parasitic helminths transmitted by vectors
- Parasites with two hosts and free-living distributive phases
- Cestodes with an asexual multiplicative phase in the intermediate host
- Helminth parasites with an intermediate host and two free-living stages
- Introduction to host response
- Innate immunity
- Entry of a pathogen
- The host's response to the pathogen
- The onset of the specific immune response
- An outline of the adaptive immune system
- The main cell types involved with the immune response
- The second phase of the immune response
- Parasites, cytokines and T helper cells
- Nutrition and biochemistry of parasites
- The parasitic advantage
- Uptake of nutrients
- Basic physiology and metabolic pathways
- Transmission of parasites between hosts
- Antiparasitic chemotherapy
- Pathological effect of the parasite upon the host
- Invading the host's body
- Inflammation caused by parasites
- Reaction to parasitic helminths
- Organ and systemic pathology
- Human trematode pathogens
- The biology of Echinococcus
- Epidemiology
- Collection of data
- Problems and difficulties
- Vaccines
- The ideal vaccine
- The development of a potential vaccine
- Cutaneous leishmaniasis
- Aspects of malaria
- Obstacles to the development of a vaccine
- Effector mechanisms against the sporozoite invasion
- Host effector mechanisms operative at the hepatic stage
- Effector mechanisms against asexual and intraerythrocytic parasites
- Cerebral malaria
- Attempts to develop anti-malaria vaccines
- A synthetic vaccine.