UPC: 9783642213953 | Parasitology Research Monographs: Progress in Parasitology (Hardcover)

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Parasites threaten the health of animals and humans alike. Especially in times of increasing globalization and global warming parasites can enlarge their kingdom by spreading. At the same time many of the existing medical products have become ineffective. As these products have been used for many decades parasites have developed resistances so that they have progressed in their fight for survival. Therefore it is obvious that humans must develop new methods to face these dangers. Thus parasitological knowledge increases daily and must be formulated to be accessible for as many parasitologists (veterinarians physicians biologists) as possible. Therefore it is necessary that reviews reflecting the present status of the progress in many fields of research be published. Therefore this book published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the German Society of Parasitology compiles 18 reviews on recent hot topics including a new vaccine against malarial parasites; severe diseases with poor chances of treatment (cryptosporidiosis coccidiosis theileriosis); vectors (mosquitoes ticks) and their transmission activities; and fish parasites including molecular insights into the sex of parasites with a focus on the survival abilities that made them so dangerous. These chapters provide detailed information for researchers as well as for teachers and students in parasitology.