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" Parasites and infectious disease : "
Gerald W. Esch.
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BL
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1008838
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b763208
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Esch, Gerald W.
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| Title & Author
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Parasites and infectious disease : : discovery by serendipity, and otherwise /\ Gerald W. Esch.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (ix, 355 pages) :: illustrations, portraits
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0511287410
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: 0511289413
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: 9780511290602
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: 9780511619021
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0521675391
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0521858828
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9780521675390
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9780521858823
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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African trypanosomes and their VSGs -- Malaria: the real killer -- The HIV-AIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection: the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of articial selection -- Lyme disease: a classic emerging disease -- The discovery of ivermectin: a "crapshoot", or not? -- "You came a long way to see a tree" -- Infectious disease and modern epidemiology -- The "unholy trinity" and the geohelminths: an intractable problem? -- Hookworm disease: insidious, stealthily treacherous -- The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus: an amazing story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land -- The schistosomes: split-bodied flukes -- Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis: their life cycles and a genius at work -- Trichinosis and Trichinella spp. (all eight of them, or is it nine?) -- Phylogenetics: a contentious discipline -- Taxoplasma gondii, Sarococystis neurona, and Neospora caninum: the worst of the coccidians?
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| Abstract
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Engaging introduction to the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology.
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Parasitology.
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Parasitology.
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Zoology-- General.
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Parasitology.
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Communicable Diseases.
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Parasites.
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Parasitic Diseases.
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| Dewey Classification
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591.7857
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QL757.E785 2007eb
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2007 I-178
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QX 4E74p 2007
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