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: Machine generated contents note: Section 1 - Epidemiological patterns and consequences; value: 1. Distributions and predisposition; value: Celia Holland and Jaap Boes 1; value: 2. Control strategies; value: Lorenzo Savioli, Antonio Montresor and Marco Albonico 25; value: Section 2 - The cost and the damage done; value: 3. Pathophysiology of intestinal nematodes; value: Lani S. Stephenson 39; value: 4. Intestinal nematodes and cognitive development; value: Jane Kvalsvig 63; value: 5. The economics of worm control; value: Helen Guyatt 75; value: Section 3 - Immunology - mice, pigs and people; value: 6. Immune responses in humans - Ascaris; value: Philip J. Cooper 89; value: 7. Immunity and immune responses to Ascaris suum in pigs; value: Gregers Jungersen 105; value: 8. Immune responses in humans - Trichuris; value: Helen Faulkner and Janette E. Bradley 125; value: 9. The immunobiology of hookworm infection; value: David I. Pritchard, Rupert J. Quinnell, Peter J. Hotez,; value: J.M.Hawdon and Alan Brown 143; value: Section 4- Genetics - mice, worms and people; value: 10. Human host susceptibility to intestinal worm infections; value: Sarah Williams-Blangero and John Blangero 167; value: 11. Population genetics of intestinal nematodes; value: Helen Roberts185; value: 12. Parasite strain diversity and host immune responses; value: Derek Wakelin and Janette E.Bradley199; value: 13. The value of mutation scanning approaches for detecting; value: genetic variation - implications for studying intestinal nematodes of humans; value: Robin B. Gasser, Zhu and Neil B. Cilton. .219; value: 14. Opportunities and prospects for investigating developmentally gulated and sex-specigenesndheir expression intestinal nematodes of humans; value: Susan E. Newton, Peter R. Boag and Robin B. Gasser 235; value: Section 5 - Interaction between geohelminth infections and other diseases; value: 15. Schistosomiasis and reduced risk of atopic diseases: new insights and possible mechanisms; value: Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar and Maria Yazdanbakhsh 269; value: 16. Geohelminths, HIV/AIDS and TB; value: Gadi Borkow and Zvi Bentwich301.