Parasites and Infectious Disease: Discovery by Serendipity and OtherwiseCambridge University Press, 2007 M05 31 - 355 páginas This series of entertaining essays provides a unique insight into some of the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology. Based on interviews with 18 of the world's leading parasitologists and epidemiologists, the stories of their contributions to discovery in contemporary parasitology and infectious disease biology are told. Taken together, the essays provide a historical account of the development of the field, serving as a bridge between these discoveries and current research. The book provides a real insight into the thought processes and approaches taken in generating break through scientific discoveries, ranging from immunology to ecology and from malaria and trypanosomiasis to schistosomiasis and Lyme disease. This engaging and lively introduction to discovery in parasitology will be of interest to all those currently working in the field and will also serve to set the scene for future generations of parasitologists. |
Contenido
Prologue | 1 |
Dick Seed | 3 |
Keith Vickerman | 6 |
Bob Desowitz | 9 |
K Darwin Murrell | 12 |
Bill Campbell | 18 |
Richard Tinsley | 25 |
Sidney and Margaret Ewing | 28 |
African trypanosomes and their VSGs | 108 |
Malaria the real killer | 128 |
The HIVAIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of artificial selection | 150 |
Lyme disease a classic emerging disease | 164 |
The discovery of ivermectin a crapshoot or not? | 175 |
You came a long way to see a tree | 188 |
Infectious disease and modern epidemiology | 203 |
The unholy trinity and the geohelminths an intractable problem? | 219 |
Don Bundy | 37 |
Peter Hotez | 42 |
David Rollinson | 48 |
John Hawdon | 53 |
Mark Honigsbaum | 61 |
Roy Anderson | 65 |
Steve Nadler | 77 |
Jim Oliver | 86 |
Pat Lord | 95 |
J P Dubey | 100 |
Hookworm disease insidious stealthily treacherous | 236 |
The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus an amazing success story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land | 254 |
The schistosomes splitbodied flukes | 265 |
Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis their life cycles and a genius at work | 282 |
Trichinosis and Trichinella spp all eight of them or is it nine? | 299 |
Phylogenetics a contentious discipline | 315 |
Toxoplasma gondii Sarcocystis neurona and Neospora caninum the worst of the coccidians? | 328 |
Summary | 345 |
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Parasites and Infectious Disease: Discovery by Serendipity and Otherwise Gerald Esch Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
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