Control of human parasitic diseases
By: guest editor, David H. Molyneux
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Advances in parasitology -- v. 61; Advances in parasitology -- v. 61.
Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 662
ISBN-13: 9780080462943
Subjects: Infectieziekten; Parasitology; Medical parasitology; Prevention & control; MEDICAL; Parasitic Diseases
Description: Control of parasitic infections of humans has progressed rapidly over the last three decades. Such advances have resulted from focal disease control efforts based on historically effective interventions to new approaches to control following intensive research and pilot programs. This volume focuses on the present state of control of the significant human parasitic infectious diseases. * Includes the impact of recent research findings on control strategy * Discusses the health policy implications of these findings and the importance of evaluation and monit.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Control of human parasitic diseases: context and overview  -- David H. Molyneux; title: Malaria chemotherapy  -- Peter Winstanley, Stephen Ward; title: Insecticide-treated nets  -- Jenny Hil, Jo Lines, Mark Rowland; title: Control of Chagas disease  -- Yoichi Yamagata, Jun Nakagawa; title: Human African trypanosomiasis: epidemiology and control  -- E.M. Fèvre, K. Picozzi, J. Jannin, S.C. Welburn, I. Maudlin; title: Chemotherapy in the treatment and control of leishmaniasis --; title: Jorge Alvar, Simon Croft, Piero Olliaro --; title: Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) eradication  -- Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, Donald R. Hopkins; title: Intervention for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the community  -- Marco Albonico, Antonio Montresor, D.W.T. Crompton, Lorenzo Savioli; title: Control of onchocerciasis  -- Boakye A. Boatin, Frank O. Richards; title: Lynmphatic filariasis: treatment, control and elimination  -- Eric A. Ottesen; title: Control of cystic echinococcosis/hydatidosis: 1863-2002  -- P.S. Craig, E. Larrieu; title: Control of Taenia solium cysticercosis/taeniosis  -- Arve Lee Willingham, Dirk Engels; title: Implementation of human schistosomiasis control: challenges and prospects -- Alan Fenwick, David Rollinson, Vaughan Southgate.