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The ten-thousand year fever : rethinking human and wild primate malarias /

"Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular bi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cormier, Loretta A.
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2011.
Colección:New frontiers in historical ecology ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: malaria as a primate disorder
  • Co-evolution: parasites, vectors, and hosts
  • Falciparum type: the great ape malaria
  • Vivax type: the macaque malaria
  • Migration: malaria in the New World
  • Rhesus factor: experimental studies in wild primates
  • Ethics: human experimentation
  • Future: the primate malaria landscape
  • Appendix 1. Plasmodia parasites and their natural primate hosts
  • Appendix 2. Experimentally induced plasmodium cross-infections into novel hosts
  • Appendix 3. Naturally acquired cross-infections with novel malaria parasites
  • Appendix 4. Primate species and all infections with plasmodium parasites.