Bookedited by Tracey Lamb.
Contents:
Introduction : Immunoparasitology : The making of a modern immunological science
1. Notes on the immune system
2. Introduction to Protozoan infections
3. Apicomplexa : Malaria
4. Apicomplexa : Toxoplasma gondii
5. Apicomplexa : Cryptosporidium
6. Diplomonadida : Giardia
7. Kinetoplastids : Leishmania
8. Kinetoplastids : Trypanosomes
9. Kinetoplastids : Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas disease)
10. Introduction to Helminth infections
11. Nematoda : Filarial Nematodes
12. Nematoda : Ascaris lumbricoides
13. Nematoda : Hookworms
14. Nematoda : Trichuris
15. Nematoda : Trichinella
16. Trematoda : Schistosomes
17. Cestoda : Tapeworm infection
18. Co-infection : Immunological considerations
19. HIV and malaria co-infection
20. HIV and Leishmania co-infection
21. Gastrointestinal Nematodes and malaria
22. Malaria and Schistosomes
23. Hygiene and other early childhood influences on the subsequent function of the immune system
24. Nematodes as therapeutic organisms
25.1. Vaccination against malaria
25.2. Current approaches to the development of a vaccine against Leishmaniasis
25.3. Vaccination against Hookworms
25.4. Current approaches to the development of a vaccine against Filarial Nematodes.