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Parasites and infectious disease : discovery by serendipity, and otherwise /
Engaging introduction to the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- African trypanosomes and their VSGs
- Malaria: the real killer
- The HIV-AIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection: the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of articial selection
- Lyme disease: a classic emerging disease
- The discovery of ivermectin: a "crapshoot", or not?
- "You came a long way to see a tree"
- Infectious disease and modern epidemiology
- The "unholy trinity" and the geohelminths: an intractable problem?
- Hookworm disease: insidious, stealthily treacherous
- The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus: an amazing story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land
- The schistosomes: split-bodied flukes
- Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis: their life cycles and a genius at work
- Trichinosis and Trichinella spp. (all eight of them, or is it nine?)
- Phylogenetics: a contentious discipline
- Taxoplasma gondii, Sarococystis neurona, and Neospora caninum: the worst of the coccidians?