Opportunistic Infections: Toxoplasma, Sarcocystis, and Microsporidia
Opportunistic Infections: Toxoplasma, Sarcocystis, and Microsporidia will focus on two important Genera of Apicomplexan parasites, Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis species, and the medically important members of the Phylum Microsporida. We have been fort
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World Class Parasites VOLUME 9
Volumes in the World Class Parasites book series are written for researchers, students and scholars who enjoy reading about excellent research on problems of global significance. Each volume focuses on a parasite, or group of parasites, that has a major impact on human health, or agricultural productivity, and against which we have no satisfactory defense. The volumes are intended to supplement more formal texts that cover taxonomy, life cycles, morphology, vector distribution, symptoms and treatment. They integrate vector, pathogen and host biology and celebrate the diversity of approach that comprises modern parasitological research.
Series Editors Samuel J. Black, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, U.S.A. J. Richard Seed, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS: Toxoplasma, Sarcocystis, and Microsporidia
edited by
David S. Lindsay Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine Blacksburg, Virginia and
Louis M. Weiss Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1. Biology of Toxoplasma gondii in cats and other animals. J.P. Dubey and David S. Lindsay
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Chapter 2. Proteases as potential targets for blocking Toxoplasma gondii invasion and replication. Vern B. Carruthers 21 Chapter 3. Targeting the Toxoplasma gondii apicoplast chemotherapy. Sunny C. Yung and Naomi Lang-Unnasch
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Chapter 4. Factors determining resistance and susceptibility to infection with Toxoplasma gondii. Yasuhiro Suzuki 51 Chapter 5. Immune responses to Toxoplasma gondii in the central nervous system. Sandra Halonen 67 Chapter 6. Developmental stage conversion: Insights and possibilities Kami Kim and Louis Weiss 89 Chapter 7. Sarcocystis of humans. Ronald Fayer
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Chapter 8. Zoonotic microsporidia from animals and arthropods with a discussion of human infections. K.F. Snowden 123 Chapter 9. Insights into the immune responses to microsporidia. Imtiaz A. Khan and Elizabeth S. Didier
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Chapter 10. Chemotherapy of microsporidiosis: Benzimidazoles, fumagillin and polyamine analogues. Cyrus J. Bacchi and Louis M. 159 Weiss Chapter 11. Phylogenetics: Taxonomy and the microsporidia as derived fungi. Charles R. Vossbrinck, Theodore G. Andreadis and Louis M. 189 Weiss Chapter 12. The Microsporidia genome: Living with minimal genes as an intracellular eukaryote. C.P. Vivarès and G. Méténier 215 Index
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