Springer, 1990. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0387196064; ISBN13: 9780387196060. This book on parasitology, unlike others, is written by a physician with almost three decades of experience in both developed and developing countries and aims to raise the clinician's index of awareness toward these clinically underdiagnosed diseases. The approach is not dominated by taxonomy but is largely...
3rd edition. — Springer, 1995. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4612-2476-1. This compact, up-to-date guidebook is now entering its third edition as the foremost text on parasitology. With over 350 illustrations, Parasitic Diseases, Third Edition provides clear, comprehensive information of interest to both practicing clinicians as well as medical and graduate students. The biology of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 520 p. — ISBN: 0470972475; ISBN13: 9780470972472. Parasitic infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the world today. Often endemic in developing countries many parasitic diseases are neglected in terms of research funding and much remains to be understood about parasites and the interactions they have with the immune system....
Humana, 2019. — 341 p. — ISBN: 1493995499; ISBN13: 9781493995493. This detailed book serves to provide a global overview of the goals, rationale, and scientific basis for malaria control and elimination, as well as tools, methods, and strategies to that end. Opening with a section on malaria epidemiology, the volume continues by covering tools that are critical to malaria...
Informa Medical, 2001. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0203302257; ISBN13: 9780203302255. Malaria in pregnancy has been a long-standing conundrum - why do women immune to the parasite after years of exposure suddenly become susceptible to infection during first pregnancies? Recent scientific breakthroughs have shed new light on interactions between the malaria parasite and the placenta, and...
Greenhaven Press, 2009. — 150 p. — (Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders). — ISBN: 0737743794; ISBN13: 9780737743791. Readers examine the causes, treatments, and prevalence of Malaria throughout the world. Includes photos, glossary, chronology, organizations to contact, and index.
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0801866375; ISBN13: 9780801866371. In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic development, and the quality of life at every level of...
New York: Springer, 2015. — 1328 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-8757-9. The Encyclopedia of Malaria represents a vast databank of information about the study of malaria. It provides an overview of the historical, rapid, and significant developments that have occurred in malaria research, including the 2002 genome sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum and its mosquito vector, Anopheles...
2nd edition. — Chelsea House Publications, 2009. — 119 p. — (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics). — ISBN: 1604132817; ISBN13: 9781604132816. Although malaria is kept under control in most of the developed world, it ravages parts of Africa and Asia, where the simple means of protection from the disease are out of reach for much of the population. Caused by protozoan parasites from...
2nd revised and enlarged edition. — Karger, 2002. — 406 p. — ISBN: 3805573766; ISBN13: 9783805573764. Despite extensive efforts to control it, malaria is still one of the most devastating infectious diseases worldwide. This book, now in its second edition, provides a broad and up-to-date overview of the rapidly expanding field of malaria immunology and its importance in the...
Springer, 1984. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-94-009-6044-2. Malaria is a potentially life-threatening disease that affects millions worldwide, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recent emergence and spread of multidrug resistance in parts of Southeast Asia prompts the urgent need for novel and effective therapy against the disease.
ITexLi, 2021. — 298 p. — ISBN: 1839684836 9781839684838 1839684852 9781839684852. This book provides updated information on epidemiological and public health research on malaria conducted in the last decade. Over four sections, chapters discuss such topics as diagnosis, epidemiology and surveillance, policy and prevention, and vector control and vaccines. Malaria is one of the...
Washington: The National Academies Press, 2020. — 427 p. — ISBN-13 978-0-309-67210-8. Committee to Review Long-Term Health Effects of Antimalarial Drugs, Board on Population Health & Public Health Practice, Health & Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. Among the many who serve in the United States Armed Forces and who are deployed to...
B.C. Decker, 2001. — 544 p. — ISBN: 1550091573; ISBN13: 9781550091571. This landmark publication is a thorough, up-to-date overview of all aspects of malaria and its effects. It offers a wealth of valuable information to all faced with the challenge of preventing and treating this multi-faceted disease. Travelers' Malaria is a comprehensive, yet practical reference for health...
Springer, 2014. — 223 p. — ISBN: 9400774370; ISBN13: 9789400774377. This book describes the role of heat shock proteins in the life cycle of malaria parasites. The work includes a general introduction to the structural and functional features of heat shock proteins. The main focus is on the role of heat shock protein families from Plasmodium falciparum, their role in protein...
Springer, 2012. — 318 p. — ISBN: 3034604793; ISBN13: 9783034604796. Malaria has defeated previous efforts at eradication and remains a massive global public health problem despite being readily preventable and treatable. It is a devastating disease that also extracts huge economic costs from the poorest countries in endemic regions. Starting with an overview of the disease and...
Springer, 2005. — 446 p. — ISBN: 3540253637; ISBN13: 9783540253631. Despite rapid increases in knowledge, malaria continues to kill more than a million people each year and causes symptomatic disease in a further 300 million individuals. This volume brings some of the world's best investigators to describe recent advances in both the scientific and clinical aspects of malaria...
2nd edition. — World Health Organization, 2010. — 83 p. — ISBN: 9241547820; ISBN13: 9789241547826. Microscopists are vital to malaria programs, and their diagnostic and technical skills are relied on in both curative services and disease surveillance. Thus, training in malaria microscopy must be sound and must reach today's high standards. This training package has been...
2nd edition. — World Health Organization, 2010. — 194 p. — ISBN: 9241547928; ISBN13: 9789241547925. Malaria control requires an integrated approach, including prevention (primarily vector control) and prompt treatment with effective antimalarials. Since the publication of the first edition of these "Guidelines" in 2006, most of the countries where P. Falciparum is endemic have...
Caister Academic Press, 2015. — 246 p. — ISBN: 978-1-908230-52-2. With an estimated 1.3 million new cases and causing more than 20,000 deaths every year, Leishmaniasis continues to be a menace in countries across the globe. The absence of an anti-Leishmania vaccine, the toxicity of current anti-parasite drugs, coupled with the rapid emergence of drug-resistant Leishmania...
ITexLi, 2023. — 111 p. — ISBN: 1803564954 9781803564951 1803564946 9781803564944 1803564962 9781803564968. Towards New Perspectives on Toxoplasma gondii reflects the range of research activities and knowledge on this significant pathogenic protozoan parasite. The book addresses important developments in Toxoplasma, and covers a variety of topics, including the development of...
Elsevier, 1974. — 356 p. — ISBN: 0-444-15017-X. The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry, and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is...
Bentham Books, 2010. — 195 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60805-148-9. This Ebook provides an interesting and up-to-date overview of Parasite Immunology in terms of a survival battle between hosts and parasites, describing firstly how parasites interact with different B cell compartments and trigger a vigorous antibody response. An Interesting chapter deals with new insights into immune...
ITexLi, 2022. — 165 p. — ISBN: 1803556919 9781803556918 1803556900 9781803556901 1803556927 9781803556925. This book discusses Chagas disease and its etiological agent, including information on relevant clinical aspects such as diagnosis, treatment, biomarkers, and so on. It also presents information about cellular, molecular, and biochemical characteristics of the...
Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999. — 576 p. — ISBN: 9789057024467. Malaria causes more death and disease than any other parasitic pathogen known today. This multiauthored text covers the important areas of malaria research, particularly focusing on those sectors which are of clinical importance for the understanding of the disease, the parasite, and its vector. The chapter...
Springer, 2013. — 1359 p. — ISBN: 978-3-7091-1125-3 One of the main problems concerning therapeutic tools for the treatment of parasitic diseases, including leishmaniasis, is that some field parasites are naturally resistant to the classical drugs; additionally, current therapies may select parasites prone to be resistant to the applied drugs. These features are (at least...
Springer, 2013. — 458 p. — ISBN: 978-3-7091-0238-1 One of the main problems concerning therapeutic tools for the treatment of parasitic diseases, including leishmaniasis, is that some field parasites are naturally resistant to the classical drugs; additionally, current therapies may select parasites prone to be resistant to the applied drugs. These features are (at least...
Springer, 2017. — 275 p. — ISBN: 978-3319452081 Currently, malaria kills more than 300,000 people per year, making it a top priority of world leaders and international organizations, who are working towards implementing and coordinating efforts to eradicate this disease. An effective malaria vaccine is recognized as the key element that will decide between success and failure...
New York: Parasites Without Borders, 2017. — 602 p. Remarkable achievements in parasitic disease research, both basic and translational, have occurred over the last ten years, and we have incorporated the majority of these into the 6th edition of Parasitic Diseases. We have added over 1,000 new references to document these advances. Innovative work in the laboratory has...
Wiley Blackwell, 2017. — 601 p. — ISBN: 9781118493793. In the summer of 2011, Professor Angelo Azzi, the then‐president of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) approached us to edit and compile a book on recent developments in malaria as part of the Wiley–IUBMB book series. This was an unexpected surprise, as we had never undertaken such an...
CRC Press, 2004. — 413 p. — ISBN: 0415301122. Malaria is an increasing worldwide threat, with more than three hundred million infections and one million deaths every year. The disease is increasingly difficult to control as malaria parasites become resistant to drugs, and mosquitoes develop resistance to pesticides. The world's poorest are the worst affected, and they are the...
London: Imperial College Press, 2004. — 446 p. — (Tropical Medicine: Science and Practice). — ISBN10: 1860943578. — ISBN13: 978-1860943577. This volume reviews all of the haematological changes and interactions in malaria, one of the most important transmissible diseases in human beings. In doing so, it emphasizes the importance of malaria as a primarily haematological disease....