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Malaria : molecular and clinical aspects / edited by Mats Wahlgren and Peter Perlmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malaria.
- Malaria--Molecular aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (576 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Harwood Academic ; Abingdon : Marston, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Malaria causes more death and disease than any other parasitic pathogen known today. This multiauthored text covers the important areas of malaria research, particularly focusing on those sectors which are of clinical importance for the understanding of the disease, the parasite, and its vector. The chapter authors are all leading experts within their own particular fields. The biology and molecular biology of the parasite, the clinical spectrum of the disease, the pathogenesis of malaria, and the immunology and emergence of malaria vaccines are some examples of the scientific spheres that
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Milestones and Millstones in the History of Malaria; The Malaria Parasite and its Life-cycle; The Epidemiology of Malaria; Clinical Features of Malaria; The Anopheles Mosquito: Genomics and Transformation; The Malaria Genome; The Malaria Antigens; Genetic Approaches to the Determinants of Drug Response, Pathogenesis and Infectivity in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria; The Sporozoite, the Merozoite and the Infected Red Cell: Parasite Ligands and Host Receptors; Cytoadherence and Rosetting in the Pathogenesis of Severe Malaria
- Inflammatory Processes in the Pathogenesis of MalariaInborn Resistance to Malaria; Burkitt's Lymphoma and Malaria; The Role of T Cells in Immunity to Malaria and the Pathogenesis of Disease; Malaria Vaccines; Synthetic Peptides as Malaria Vaccines; SPf66: The First and Towards the Second Generation of Malarial Vaccines; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-04-017868-5
- 0-429-18105-1
- 1-4822-9824-4
- 1-280-05690-8
- 9786610056903
- 0-203-30383-0
- 9780429181054
- OCLC:
- 437084406
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