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Chagas Disease

Part A

Audience
Researchers in parasitology, tropical medicine and entomology.

Included in series
Advances in Parasitology

Hardbound, 390 Pages

Published: August 2011

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-385863-4

Reviews

  • "One is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing." -PARASITOLOGY "The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers." -ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY

Contents

    1. Epidemiology of American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease)

      2. Louis V. Kirchhoff, MD, MPH

    2. Acute and Congenital Chagas Diseases

      3. Caryn Bern, Diana Martin and Robert H. Gilman

    3. Cell Based Therapy in Chagas Disease

      4. Antonio C. Campos de Carvalho, Adriana B. Carvalho and Regina C. S. Goldenberg

    4. Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14 alpha-demethylase

      5. Galina I. Lepesheva, Fernando Villalta, and Michael R. Waterman

    5. Experimental Chemotherapy and Approaches to Drug Discovery for Trypanosoma cruzi Infection

      6. Frederick S. Buckner

    6. Vaccine development against Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease

      7. Juan C. Vázquez-Chagoyán, Shivali Gupta and Nisha Jain Garg

    7. Genetic Epidemiology of Chagas Disease

      8. Sarah Williams-Blangero, Ph.D, John L. VandeBerg, Ph.D 2 , John Blangero, Ph.D 1 , and Rodrigo Corrêa-Oliveira, Ph.D.

    8. Kissing Bugs. The Vectors of Chagas

      9. Lori Stevens, Patricia L. Dorn, Justin O. Schmidt, John H. Klotz, David Lucero and Stephen A. Klotz

    9. Advances in Imaging of Animal Models of Chagas Disease

      10. Linda A. Jelicks, PhD and Herbert B. Tanowitz, MD

    10. The Genome and its Implications

      11. Santuza M. Teixeira, Najib M. El-Sayed and Patrícia R. Araújo

    11. Genetic Techniques in Trypanosoma cruzi

      12. Martin C. Taylor, Huan Huang and John M. Kelly

    12. Nuclear structure of Trypanosoma cruzi

      13. Sergio Schenkman, Bruno dos Santos Pascoalino, Sheila C. Nardelli

    13. ASPECTS OF Trypanosoma cruzi STAGE DIFFERENTIATION.

      14. Samuel Goldenberg and Andrea Rodrigues Ávila

    14. The Role of Acidocalcisomes in the Stress Response of Trypanosoma cruzi

      15. Roberto Docampo*, Veronica Jimenez, Sharon King-Keller, Zhu-hong Li, and Silvia N.J. Moreno

    15. Signal transduction in Trypanosoma cruzi

              Huan Huang

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