
Advances in Parasitology
Description
Key Features
- Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
- Contributions from leading authorities and industry experts
Readership
Students, research scientists, teachers, clinicians both veterinary and medical, control programme managers, fund managers and policy makers
Table of Contents
Contributors
Memoriam
Chapter One: Joint Infectious Causation of Human Cancers
Abstract1 Introduction
2 Essential and Exacerbating Causes
3 Joint Essential Causes
4 Essential with Exacerbating Infections
5 Joint Exacerbating Infections
6 Uncertainties in Assignment of Exacerbating and Essential Causation
7 Implications for Cancers of Uncertain Cause
8 Implications for the Control of Cancer
Acknowledgements
Chapter Two: Neurological and Ocular Fascioliasis in Humans
Abstract1 Introduction
2 Fasciola Infection in Humans
3 Neurological Fascioliasis
4 Neurofascioliasis or Intracranial Fascioliasis
5 Fascioliasis with Neurological Implications
6 Ocular Fascioliasis
7 Affection of Related or Close Organs
8 Polymorphisms, Multifocality, Manifestation Changes, and Syndromes
9 Pathogenic and Physiological Mechanisms
10 Diagnosis of Neurological and Ophthalmologic Fascioliasis
11 Neurological and Ophthalmologic Fascioliasis Treatment
12 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Chapter Three: Measuring Changes in Plasmodium falciparum Transmission
Abstract1 Introduction
2 Accuracy, Precision and Costs of Malaria Metrics
3 Scaling Relationships Between Malaria Metrics
4 Discussion
Acknowledgements
Chapter Four: A Review of Molecular Approaches for Investigating Patterns of Coevolution in Marine Host–Parasite Relationships
Abstract1 Introduction
2 Factors That May Confound Elucidation of Coevolutionary Patterns
3 What Types of Markers Resolve Marine Host–Parasite Evolutionary Relationships the Best?
4 What Can Functional Markers Tell Us About Local Adaptations in Host–Parasite Systems?
5 Which Methodologies Reveal Coevolutionary Relationships in Marine Host–Parasites the Best?
6 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Chapter Five: New Insights into Clonality and Panmixia in Plasmodium and Toxoplasma
Abstract1 Introduction
2 Initial Proposals
3 Indispensable Recalls
4 Recent Developments
5 Population Structure of Plasmodium and Toxoplasma in the Light of the PCE Model
6 Passive Clonality (Starving Sex) Versus In-Built Clonality in Plasmodium
7 Are Clonality and Near-Clading in Plasmodium and Toxoplasma Mainly Due to Natural Selection?
8 Are the New Plasmodium “Species” Not Mere Near-Clades?
9 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Index
Contents of Volumes in This Series
Product details
- No. of pages: 312
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: January 22, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128005873
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128000991
About the Serial Editor
D. Rollinson
