Parasites and Infectious Disease: Discovery by Serendipity and Otherwise

ISBN: 9780521675390 出版年：2007 页码：367 Gerald Esch Cambridge University Press

Preface Prologue Introduction 1. African trypanosomes and their VSGs 2. Malaria: the real killer 3. The HIV-AIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection: the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of artificial selection 4. Lyme disease: a classic emerging disease 5. The discovery of ivermectin: a 'crap shoot', or not? 6. 'You came a long way to see a tree' 7. Infectious disease and modern epidemiology 8. The 'Unholy Trinity' and the geohelminths: an intractable problem? 9. Hookworm disease: insidious, stealthily treacherous 10. The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus: an amazing story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land 11. The schistosomes: split-bodied flukes 12. Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis: Their life cycles and a genius at work 13. Trichinosis and Trichinella spp. (all eight of them, or is it nine?) 14. Phylogenetics: a contentious discipline 15. Toxoplasma gondii, Sarcocystis neurona, and Neospora caninum: the worst of the coccidians? Summary.