Echinostomes as Experimental Models for Biological Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. An Overview of the Biology of Echinostomes

   • Ivan Kanev, Mauritz Sterner, Valentine Radev, Bernard Fried

   Pages 1-29

3. The Systematics of the Echinostomes

   • A. Kostadinova, D. I. Gibson

   Pages 31-57

4. Echinostomes in Veterinary and Wildlife Parasitology

   • Jane E. Huffman

   Pages 59-82

5. Human Echinostomiasis: Mechanisms of Pathogenesis and Host Resistance

   • M. A. Haseeb, L. K. Eveland

   Pages 83-98

6. Maintenance, Cultivation, and Excystation of Echinostomes

   • Bernard Fried

   Pages 99-118

7. Ultrastructural Studies on Echinostomes

   • T. Fujino, H. Ichikawa

   Pages 119-136

8. Reproductive Physiology and Behavior of Echinostomes

   • Paul M. Nollen

   Pages 137-148

9. Immunobiology of the Relationship of Echinostomes with Snail Intermediate Hosts

   • Coen M. Adema, Kelli K. Sapp, Lynn A. Hertel, Eric S. Loker

   Pages 149-173

10. The Behavioral Biology of Echinostomes

    • Wilfried Haas

    Pages 175-197

11. Physiology and Biochemistry of Echinostomes

    • John Barrett

    Pages 199-212

12. Neuromusculature — Structure and Functional Correlates

    • J. E. Humphries, A. Mousley, A. G. Maule, D. W. Halton

    Pages 213-227

13. Immunobiology and Immunodiagnosis of Echinostomiasis

    • Thaddeus K. Graczyk

    Pages 229-244

14. Molecular Biology of Echinostomes

    • Jessica A. T. Morgan, David Blair

    Pages 245-266

15. Back Matter

    Pages 267-273

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Echinostomes are ubiquitous intestinal flatworm parasites of vertebrates and are of importance in human and veterinary medicine and wildlife diseases. Echinostomes can be maintained easily and inexpensively in the laboratory and provide good models for biological research ranging from the molecular to the organismal. Considerable but scattered literature has been published on the subject of echinostomes and a synthesis of this wide range of topics has now been achieved with the publication of this book, which presents a wide range of topics in experimental biology related to the use of echinostomes as laboratory models. It will have a special appeal to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in parasitology and should also appeal to professional parasitologists, physicians, veterinarians, wildlife disease biologists, and any biomedical scientists interested in new model systems for studies in experimental biology.

• biology
• molecular biology
• parasite
• parasites
• parasitology
• pathogenesis
• physiology
• systematics
• vertebrates
• infectious diseases

• Lafayette College, Easton, USA

  Bernard Fried

• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

  Thaddeus K. Graczyk

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