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: title: Machine generated contents note: Section 1 - Epidemiological patterns and consequences; title: 1. Distributions and predisposition / Celia Holland and Jaap Boes; title: 2. Control strategies / Lorenzo Savioli, Antonio Montresor and Marco Albonico; title: Section 2 - The cost and the damage done; title: 3. Pathophysiology of intestinal nematodes / Lani S. Stephenson; title: 4. Intestinal nematodes and cognitive development / Jane Kvalsvig; title: 5. The economics of worm control / Helen Guyatt; title: Section 3 - Immunology - mice, pigs and people; title: 6. Immune responses in humans : Ascaris / Philip J. Cooper; title: 7. Immunity and immune responses to Ascaris suum in pigs / Gregers Jungersen; title: 8. Immune responses in humans : Trichuris / Helen Faulkner and Janette E. Bradley; title: 9. The immunobiology of hookworm infection / David I. Pritchard, Rupert J. Quinnell, Peter J. Hotez, J.M. Hawdon and Alan Brown 143; title: Section 4 - Genetics - mice, worms and people; title: 10. Human host susceptibility to intestinal worm infections / Sarah Williams-Blangero and John Blangero; title: 11. Population genetics of intestinal nematodes / Helen Roberts; title: 12. Parasite strain diversity and host immune responses / Derek Wakelin and Janette E. Bradley; title: 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. Cilton; title: 14. Opportunities and prospects for investigating developmentally gulated and sex-specigenesndheir expression intestinal nematodes of humans / Susan E. Newton, Peter R. Boag, and Robin B. Gasser; title: Section 5 - Interaction between geohelminth infections and other diseases; title: 15. Schistosomiasis and reduced risk of atopic diseases: new insights and possible mechanisms / Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar and Maria Yazdanbakhsh; title: 16. Geohelminths, HIV/AIDS, and TB / Gadi Borkow and Zvi Bentwich.