Natural history of host-parasite interactions
By: edited by Joanne P. Webster
Contributors: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Series: Advances in parasitology -- v. 68
Publisher: Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9780080950884; 9780123747877
Subjects: MEDICAL; Parasitology; Host-parasite relationships
Description: Evolutionary theory has a key role to play in the interpretation of host and parasitic dynamics and the design and application of disease control programmes. This title collects articles from scientists from different fields of research and/or disease control, but with a common interest in studying the biology of a variety of parasitic diseases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 6: Tracking Transmission of the Zoonosis Toxoplasma gondiiChapter 7: Parasites and Biological Invasions; Chapter 8: Zoonoses in Wildlife: Integrating Ecology into Management; Chapter 9: Understanding the Interaction Between an Obligate Hyperparasitic Bacterium, Pasteuria penetrans and its Obligate Pla; Chapter 10: Host-Parasite Relations and Implications for Control; Chapter 11: Onchocerca-Simulium Interactions and the Po