Trichinella and Trichinosis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Historical Introduction

   • William C. Campbell

   Pages 1-30

3. Species, and Infraspecific Variation

   • Terry A. Dick

   Pages 31-73

4. Biology

   • Dickson D. Despommier

   Pages 75-151

5. Biochemistry

   • George L. Stewart

   Pages 153-172

6. Anatomical Pathology

   • Norman F. Weatherly

   Pages 173-208

7. Pathophysiology of the Gastrointestinal Phase

   • Gilbert A. Castro, Graham R. Bullick

   Pages 209-239

8. Pathophysiology of the Muscle Phase

   • George L. Stewart

   Pages 241-264

9. The Immune Response

   • Derek Wakelin, David A. Denham

   Pages 265-308

10. Antigens

    • David S. Silberstein

    Pages 309-334

11. Chemotherapy

    • William C. Campbell, David A. Denham

    Pages 335-366

12. Clinical Aspects in Man

    • Zbigniew S. Pawłowski

    Pages 367-401

13. Immunodiagnosis in Man

    • Inger Ljungström

    Pages 403-424

14. Epidemiology I Modes of Transmission

    • William C. Campbell

    Pages 425-444

15. Epidemiology II Geographic Distribution and Prevalence

    • Charles W. Kim

    Pages 445-500

16. Control I Public-Health Aspects (with Special Reference to the United States)

    • Jack C. Leighty

    Pages 501-513

17. Control II Surveillance in Swine and Other Animals by Muscle Examination

    • William J. Zimmermann

    Pages 515-528

18. Control III Surveillance in Swine by Immunodiagnostic Methods

    • E. Joost Ruitenberg, Frans Van Knapen, Anneke Elgersma

    Pages 529-550

19. Synopsis of Morphology

    • Dickson D. Despommier, William C. Campbell

    Pages 551-561

20. Laboratory Techniques

    • Lyndia Slayton Blair

    Pages 563-570

I have cured the Empress of Boolampoo of a Cramp she got in her tongue by eating Pork and buttered parsnips .... The Earl of Rochester-17th Century As the modern outpouring of biological information continues at ever­ increasing pace, two kinds of reviews are needed to keep the torrent in manageable form. The one assumes a working knowledge of the field in question and tries to bring the reader up to date by reporting and assessing the recent developments. The other attempts to assimilate the recent developments into a coherent restatement of the whole subject. This book falls in the latter category. Trichinella spiralis infection has been in the medical and biological limelight for more than a century, and interest in it continues una­ bated-as evidenced by what Norman Stoll called the "perennially exuberant" research on trichinosis. The infection seems to offer some­ thing for almost everyone. For the physician, it offers a patient with painful and sometimes fatal disease; for the public-health official, a threat to the commonweal; for the experimental biologist, a life cycle that is unique yet easily and rapidly maintained in the laboratory; for the field ecologist, a symbiont with an affinity for an extraordinary range of wildlife species; for the pork producer, a poorer profit; for the cook, a culinary constraint; and for the diner, a dietary danger. Yet, despite this breadth of interest, and the cascade of new data, the only comprehensive books on the subject in English are those of S.E.

• Laboratory
• antibody
• antigen
• cell
• development
• fat
• health
• infection
• parasite
• research

• Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, USA

  William C. Campbell

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