Parasites and infectious disease : discovery by serendipity, and otherwise /
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 paras...
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- African trypanosomes and their VSGs
- Malaria: the real killer
- The HIV-AIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection: the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of articial selection
- Lyme disease: a classic emerging disease
- The discovery of ivermectin: a "crapshoot", or not?
- "You came a long way to see a tree"
- Infectious disease and modern epidemiology
- The "unholy trinity" and the geohelminths: an intractable problem?
- Hookworm disease: insidious, stealthily treacherous
- The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus: an amazing story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land
- The schistosomes: split-bodied flukes
- Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis: their life cycles and a genius at work
- Trichinosis and Trichinella spp. (all eight of them, or is it nine?)
- Phylogenetics: a contentious discipline
- Taxoplasma gondii, Sarococystis neurona, and Neospora caninum: the worst of the coccidians?
