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Sara E. Melville
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Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Table of contents (24 protocols)
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- Daniella Bartholomeu, Najib M. El-Sayed
Pages 1-16
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- Matthew Berriman, Midori Harris
Pages 17-43
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- Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Neil Hall
Pages 45-74
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- Claire Whitton, Jennifer Daub, Marian Thompson, Mark Blaxter
Pages 75-91
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- John Parkinson, Mark Blaxter
Pages 93-126
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- Winston A. Hide, Raphael D. Isokpehi
Pages 127-150
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- Bryony A. P. Williams, Robert P. Hirt
Pages 151-171
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- Daniel K. Masiga, C. Michael R. Turner
Pages 173-185
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- Karl F. Hoffmann, Jennifer M. Fitzpatrick
Pages 219-236
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- Upinder Singh, Preetam H. Shah, Ryan C. MacFarlane
Pages 237-248
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- Chunlei Su, Christian Hott, Bernard H. Brownstein, L. David Sibley
Pages 249-262
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- Brendan S. Crabb, Melanie Rug, Tim-Wolf Gilberger, Jennifer K. Thompson, Tony Triglia, Alexander G. Maier et al.
Pages 263-276
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- George K. Arhin, Shuiyuan Shen, Elisabetta Ullu, Christian Tschudi
Pages 277-286
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- Appolinaire Djikeng, Shuiyuan Shen, Christian Tschudi, Elisabetta Ullu
Pages 287-297
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- Kelly A. Robinson, Sophie Goyard, Stephen M. Beverley
Pages 299-317
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- Sudsanguan Chusacultanachai, Yongyuth Yuthavong
Pages 319-333
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- Vanessa Leech, Michael A. Quail, Sara E. Melville
Pages 335-351
About this book
Parasitic diseases remain a major health problem throughout the world, for both humans and animals. For many of us, our technologically advanced lifestyle has decreased the prevalence and transmission of parasitic diseases, but for the majority of the world’s population, they are ever present in homes, domestic animals, food, or the environment. The study of parasites and parasitic disease has a long and distinguished history. In some cases, it has been driven by the great importance of the presence of the parasite to the community, for example, those that affect our livestock. In other cases, it is clear that applied research has suffered for lack of funding because the parasite affects people with few resources, such as the rural poor in resource-poor countries. These instances include the so-called “neglected diseases,” as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). Parasites have complicated life cycles, and a thorough understanding of the unique characteristics of a particular parasite species is vital in attempts to avoid, prevent, or cure infection or to alleviate symptoms. Of course, the biological characteristics that each parasite has developed to aid survival and transmission, to avoid destruction by the immune system, and to adapt to a changing environment are of lasting fascination to basic biologists as well. The elegance of these biological systems has ensured that the study of protozoan and metazoan parasites also remains an active field of research in countries where the diseases are not a threat to the population.
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"...represents an excellent resource for both students and researchers in the field." - Society for General Microbiolgy
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Sara E. Melville
