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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
2011.
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| Series: | New frontiers in historical ecology ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.