Immunity To Blood Parasites Of Animals And Man

Author : Louis Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461588559

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Immunity to Blood Parasites of Animals and Man by Louis Miller Pdf

Since the turn of the century, certain parasitic diseases of livestock have frus trated efforts to bring them under control by vaccination techniques; East Coast fever and trypanosomiasis are two such diseases. East Coast fever (ECF) kills a half million cattle annually; and 3 million are killed each year by trypanosomia sis, which is widely spread over tropical Mrica. Together, these diseases have closed some 7 million square kilometers of land to livestock grazing-land that might otherwise support an additional 120 million head of cattle. In 1970 W.A. Malmquist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in collabora tion with K.N. Brown, M.P. Cunningham, and other associates at the East African Veterinary Research Organization in Kenya, succeeded in cultivating in vitro the protozoal organisms responsible for East Coast fever. This success, obtained utilizing tissue cultures, encouraged a number of organizations to support research on these parasites in an accelerated effort to develop field vaccines.

Author : Louis Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461588561

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Immunity to Blood Parasites of Animals and Man by Louis Miller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414867179

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Immunity to Blood Parasites of Animals and Man by Anonim Pdf

Author : Derek Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521436354

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Immunity to Parasites by Derek Wakelin Pdf

Parasites cause many important diseases in humans and domestic animals, malaria being an example. Parasites have evolved to exploit hosts' bodies whereas hosts have evolved immune systems to control infections. Host-parasite interactions therefore provide fascinating examples of evolutionary 'arms-races' in which the immune system plays a key role. Modern research in immunoparasitology is directed towards understanding and exploiting the capacity to develop effective anti-parasite immunity. By concentrating on selected infections where research has made significant progress, Immunity to Parasites provides a clear account of how host immune responses operate and how parasites can evade immunity. The experimental basis of this research is emphasised throughout. This completely updated second edition includes an expanded section on anti-parasite vaccines. The text is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates with interests in either parasitology or immunology and provides introductory sections on these topics to lead the reader into the later chapters.

Author : Tracey Lamb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118393338

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Immunity to Parasitic Infection by Tracey Lamb Pdf

Parasitic infections remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the world today. Often endemic in developing countries many parasitic diseases are neglected in terms of research funding and much remains to be understood about parasites and the interactions they have with the immune system. This book examines current knowledge about immune responses to parasitic infections affecting humans, including interactions that occur during co-infections, and how immune responses may be manipulated to develop therapeutic interventions against parasitic infection. For easy reference, the most commonly studied parasites are examined in individual chapters written by investigators at the forefront of their field. An overview of the immune system, as well as introductions to protozoan and helminth parasites, is included to guide background reading. A historical perspective of the field of immunoparasitology acknowledges the contributions of investigators who have been instrumental in developing this field of research.

Author : George John Jackson,Robert Herman,Ira Singer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015004405315

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Immunity to Parasitic Animals by George John Jackson,Robert Herman,Ira Singer Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on the Use of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309220392

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Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on the Use of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Pdf

For many years, experiments using chimpanzees have been instrumental in advancing scientific knowledge and have led to new medicines to prevent life-threatening and debilitating diseases. However, recent advances in alternate research tools have rendered chimpanzees largely unnecessary as research subjects. The Institute of Medicine, in collaboration with the National Research Council, conducted an in-depth analysis of the scientific necessity for chimpanzees in NIH-funded biomedical and behavioral research. The committee concludes that while the chimpanzee has been a valuable animal model in the past, most current biomedical research use of chimpanzees is not necessary, though noted that it is impossible to predict whether research on emerging or new diseases may necessitate chimpanzees in the future.

Author : John Marchalonis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781468445718

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Immunobiology of Parasites and Parasitic Infections by John Marchalonis Pdf

The phenomena involved in infections of man and domestic animals with metazoan or protozoan parasites present formidable practical problems as well as a theoretical challenge to immunologists, molecular biologists, and evolu tionary biologists. With respect to the public health and economic problems, malaria, for example, remains a major health problem with approximately 200 million people being infected yearly and, on the basis of World Health Organiza tion estimates, more than 1 million children die each year of malaria infections (Chapter 4). This volume addresses state-of-the-art immunologic approaches to the development of vaccines for parasitic diseases (Chapter 9) and analyses of studies bearing on the antigenic characterization of protozoan and metazoan parasites (Chapters 4, 5, and 7), on investigations of the role of precise mecha nisms underlying natural resistance or non permissiveness of the host to parasitic infections (Chapters 1, 2, and 12), on induced mechanisms including the genera tion of parasite-specific T-cell lines and clones (Chapter 6), and on the generation of monoclonal antibodies (Chapters 4 and 5) to parasite antigens of distinct de velopmental stages. Great progress has been made in characterizing parasite antigens capable of inducing a protective response in the vaccinated host; further progress in this area strongly depends on biochemistry and molecular biology with the long-term goal of synthesizing such antigens chemically or producing them by means of recombinant DNA technology (Chapter 4).

Author : Bruce Alberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cytology
ISBN : 0815332181

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Molecular Biology of The Cell by Bruce Alberts Pdf

Author : I. Ristic,P. Ambroise-Thomas,J.P. Kreier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400960428

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Malaria and Babesiosis by I. Ristic,P. Ambroise-Thomas,J.P. Kreier Pdf

Author : Julius P. Kreier
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781483257471

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Malaria by Julius P. Kreier Pdf

Malaria: Volume 3, Immunology and Immunization is a collection of papers dealing with malaria parasites, the methods for measuring the immunological response to plasmodia, and the vertebrates host's immune response to plasmodia. Some papers discuss immunization against sporozoites, against the exoerythrocytic stages of malaria parasites, against asexual blood-inhabiting stages of plasmodia, as well as gamete immunization in malaria. One paper describes various separation methods to isolate malaria parasites and their constituents. Another paper discusses in detail the theory and practice of methods used in measuring antibody responses which occur during plasmodial infections, including the antibody response against sporozoites, exoerythrocytic forms, and in the different blood stages. Another paper explains the vertebrate host's immune response to plasmodial infection as a homeostatic physiological response changing along with the progression of the disease. The changes in the dynamic cellular cascade are different as the disease progresses causing death, than when these lead to recovery. Another paper enumerates the parameters which determine malarial infectiousness from one individual to another such as the time of onset, duration, intensity of the blood infections, as well as the maturity, longevity, and rate of production of gametocytes. Pharmacologists, general medical practitioners, investigators, and laboratory technicians involved in malarial research will find the collection very useful.

Author : Pedro N. Acha,Boris Szyfres,Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9275119910

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Zoonoses and communicable diseases common to man and animals by Pedro N. Acha,Boris Szyfres,Pan American Health Organization Pdf

3 vols also available separately. Contents: Vol. 1 Bacterioses and mycoses (2001, ISBN 927511580X); Vol. 2 Chlamydioses, rickettsioses and viroses (2003, ISBN 927519929); Vol. 3 Parasitoses (2003, ISBN 9275919928)

Author : National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : UOM:39015007736252

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Annual Report by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program Pdf

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1732 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015007732210

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Current Catalog by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) Pdf

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Author : National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Communicable diseases
ISBN : CHI:40334803

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Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program Annual Report ... Director's Report by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.) Pdf