Helminthology - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3642788408 ISBN 13 : 9783642788406

Editeur : Springer, 2012

Synopsis

Study of parasitology, like any other branch of biological science, has in recent years been increasingly revealing and rewarding with enrichment and embellishment by basic sciences, specially with application of spectacular advances in molecular biology and biotechnology. Such a fruitful fusion of more than one discipline has now come to characterise more than ever before our approach to the subject. This volume of helminthology with contributions from a galaxy of distinguished scientists in specific areas, bears an eloquent testimony to the gratifying yield that accrues from cross fertilisation of multiple disciplines and able support from basic sciences. Matazoan parasites, helminths, living in more than one host in different stages of development, present an intricate spectrum of host-parasite relationship, which has evolved through diverse frame and flow of ecologic circumstances. The situation is further complicated, as elaborated here, by genotypic and phenotypic variations, which profoundly influence the dynamic interaction between hosts and parasites and determine consequently survival and propagation of the latter. Indeed, one of the important messages upheld in this book is that genetic endowment of parasites plays a pivotal role in their immunogenicity, pathogenicity, response to variable environmental composition, including drug response and also their transmission dynamics and epidemiology. Evolution of parasitic helminths with concomitant physiologic and morphologic alterations have been traced from free-living stage to development of host-specificity of different degrees and parasitic speciation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Beginning with the evolution of helminth parasites to the latest available know-how, this book contains carefully selected topics covering chronological development of knowledge on helminthology. The special attractions of this volume include the genetics of host-parasite interactions. In particular, various aspects of parasitism, pathology and immunization have been discussed at the molecular level. Attention has also been drawn towards the spectacular host range of a bewildering array of helminths and the wide spectra of helminthoses in tropical countries, their geographical distribution, epidemiology, clinical manifestations and diagnosis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3642788408
• ISBN 13: 9783642788406
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Éditeur: Chowdhury Nirmalendu, Tada Isao
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