Chagas Disease: Volume 75
Part A
Published on 18. August 2011
Book
Hardback
390 pages
978-0-12-385863-4 (ISBN)
Description
This thematic volume provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews addressing recent advances as well as an overview for the research and clinical communities on the endemic infection of Chagas disease. Lead researchers discuss epidemiology and control measures as well as various diagnosis techniques, treatments, and therapies currently being used. The text includes a history of Chagas disease and an outlook for the next century.
Reviews / Votes
"One is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing." --PARASITOLOGY"The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers." --ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Researchers in parasitology, tropical medicine and entomology.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-385863-4 (9780123858634)
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05/2014
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Persons
Louis M. Weiss, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Pathology (Division of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine) of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Dr. Weiss received his M.D. and M.P.H degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1982. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following this fellowship, he joined the faculty at Einstein where he is currently a Professor of Pathology and Medicine. His laboratory group has an active research program on parasitic diseases with a research focus on Toxoplasma gondii, the Microsporidia and Trypanosoma cruzi. Dr. Weiss is the author of over 200 publications and the editor of 3 books on parasitology. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the Co-Director of the Einstein Global Health Center.
Content
1
Epidemiology,Control Measures & Population Biology
louis Kirchhoff
2
Acute and Congenital Chagas Diseases
Caryn Bern
5
Cell Based Therapy in Chagas Disease
Campos de Carvalho
6
Therapy Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14 alpha-demethylase
Galina Lepsheva, Fernando Villata & Micheal Waterman
7
Experimental Chemotherapy
Federick bruckner
8
Vaccines for Chagas Diseases
Nisha Garg
9
Population Genetics of Chagas Disease
Blangero
10
Triatomine Biology
Steve Klotz
13
Animal Models and Imaging
Herbert Tanowitz & Linda Jelicks
14
The Genome and its Implications
Santuza Teixeira
15
Genetic Techniques in Trypanosoma cruzi
John Kelly, Martin Taylor & Huan Huang
16
Nuclear Structure
Sergio Scehnkman
17
Stage Differentiation
Samuel Goldenberg
18
Acidocalcisome
Roberto Delcampo
19
Signaling Pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi
Huan Huang
20
Ecosanoids in Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Anthony Ashton, Fabiana Machado & herbert tanowitz
22
Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi on its Host Cells and Invasion
Babara Burleigh
23
Gap Junctions and Trypanosoma cruzi
David Spray
24
Vasculopathy of Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Herbert Tanowitz
21
Bradykinin& Endothelin and Vasculopathy
Scharfstein & marcus Rossi
25
Autoimmunity
Edecio Cunha-Neto
26
Oxidative stress and Chagas disease
Nisha Garg
27
Inflammation in Chagas disease
Mauro Teixeira
28
Parasite Derived Neurotrophic Factors
Mercio Pereira-Perrin
29
Adipose tissue, Diabetes and Chagas Disease
Herbert Tanowitz, FNU Nagayothi & Phillip Scherer
30
Epilogue:The Next 100 Years
Herbert Tanowitz, Louis Weiss & Louis Kirchhoff
Epidemiology,Control Measures & Population Biology
louis Kirchhoff
2
Acute and Congenital Chagas Diseases
Caryn Bern
5
Cell Based Therapy in Chagas Disease
Campos de Carvalho
6
Therapy Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14 alpha-demethylase
Galina Lepsheva, Fernando Villata & Micheal Waterman
7
Experimental Chemotherapy
Federick bruckner
8
Vaccines for Chagas Diseases
Nisha Garg
9
Population Genetics of Chagas Disease
Blangero
10
Triatomine Biology
Steve Klotz
13
Animal Models and Imaging
Herbert Tanowitz & Linda Jelicks
14
The Genome and its Implications
Santuza Teixeira
15
Genetic Techniques in Trypanosoma cruzi
John Kelly, Martin Taylor & Huan Huang
16
Nuclear Structure
Sergio Scehnkman
17
Stage Differentiation
Samuel Goldenberg
18
Acidocalcisome
Roberto Delcampo
19
Signaling Pathways in Trypanosoma cruzi
Huan Huang
20
Ecosanoids in Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Anthony Ashton, Fabiana Machado & herbert tanowitz
22
Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi on its Host Cells and Invasion
Babara Burleigh
23
Gap Junctions and Trypanosoma cruzi
David Spray
24
Vasculopathy of Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Herbert Tanowitz
21
Bradykinin& Endothelin and Vasculopathy
Scharfstein & marcus Rossi
25
Autoimmunity
Edecio Cunha-Neto
26
Oxidative stress and Chagas disease
Nisha Garg
27
Inflammation in Chagas disease
Mauro Teixeira
28
Parasite Derived Neurotrophic Factors
Mercio Pereira-Perrin
29
Adipose tissue, Diabetes and Chagas Disease
Herbert Tanowitz, FNU Nagayothi & Phillip Scherer
30
Epilogue:The Next 100 Years
Herbert Tanowitz, Louis Weiss & Louis Kirchhoff