The geohelminths
Subtitle: ascaris, trichuris, and hookworm
By: edited by Celia V. Holland and Malcolm W. Kennedy.
Contributors: Holland, Celia.; Kennedy, M. W.
Series: World class parasites -- v. 2
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Ascariasis.; Trichuriasis.; Hookworm disease.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Section 1 - Epidemiological patterns and consequences; value: 1. Distributions and predisposition / Celia Holland and Jaap Boes; value: 2. Control strategies / Lorenzo Savioli, Antonio Montresor and Marco Albonico; value: Section 2 - The cost and the damage done; value: 3. Pathophysiology of intestinal nematodes / Lani S. Stephenson; value: 4. Intestinal nematodes and cognitive development / Jane Kvalsvig; value: 5. The economics of worm control / Helen Guyatt; value: Section 3 - Immunology - mice, pigs and people; value: 6. Immune responses in humans - Ascaris / Philip J. Cooper; value: 7. Immunity and immune responses to Ascaris suum in pigs / Gregers Jungersen; value: 8. Immune responses in humans - Trichuris / Helen Faulkner and Janette E. Bradley; value: 9. The immunobiology of hookworm infection / David I. Pritchard, Rupert J. Quinnell, Peter J. Hotez,; value: J.M.Hawdon and Alan Brown; value: Section 4- Genetics - mice, worms and people; value: 10. Human host susceptibility to intestinal worm infections / Sarah Williams-Blangero and John Blangero; value: 11. Population genetics of intestinal nematodes / Helen Roberts; value: 12. Parasite strain diversity and host immune responses / Derek Wakelin and Janette E.Bradley; value: 13. The value of mutation scanning approaches for detecting genetic variation - implications for studying intestinal nematodes of humans / Robin B. Gasser, Zhu and Neil B. Chilton; value: 14. Opportunities and prospects for investigating developmentally regulated and sex-specific genes and their expression in intestinal nematodes of humans / Susan E. Newton, Peter R. Boag and Robin B. Gasser; value: Section 5 - Interaction between geohelminth infections and other diseases; value: 15. Schistosomiasis and reduced risk of atopic diseases: new insights and possible mechanisms / Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar and Maria Yazdanbakhsh; value: 16. Geohelminths, HIV/AIDS and TB / Gadi Borkow and Zvi Bentwich.