Toxocara : the enigmatic parasite /

This book contains 19 chapters focusing on Toxocara and the disease it causes known as toxocariasis. The chapters are divided into the following parts: molecular biology (3 chapters); Toxocara as a model system (2); animal models for toxocariasis (1); human disease (4); immunology of toxocariasis (2...

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Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
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245 0 0 |a Toxocara :  |b the enigmatic parasite /  |c edited by Celia V. Holland, Department of Zoology, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland and Huw V. Smith, Scottish Parasite Diagnostic Laboratory, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK. 
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505 0 # |a Molecular Biology and Immunology of Toxocara canis / Rick M. Maizels, Irma Schabussova, Deborah M. Callister and Gavin Nicoll -- Molecular Genetic Characterization of Members of the Genus Toxocara : Taxonomic, Population Genetic and Epidemiological Considerations / Robin B. Gasser, Xing-Quan Zhu, Min Hu, Dennis E. Jacobs and Neil B. Chilton -- The Larval Surface / Malcolm W. Kennedy -- Toxocara and Asthma / Elena Pinelli, Jan Dormans and Irma van Die -- The Significance of Cerebral Toxocariasis / Celia V. Holland and Clare Hamilton -- Critical Assessment of Existing and Novel Model Systems of Toxocariasis / Nobuaki Akao -- Diagnostic Limitations and Future Trends in the Serodiagnosis of Human Toxocariasis / Huw Smith and Rahmah Noordin -- Management and Treatment Options for Human Toxocariasis / Jean-François Magnaval and Lawrence T. Glickman -- Ocular Toxocariasis / Mervyn R.H. Taylor -- Toxocariasis and the Skin / Renaud Piarroux, Béatrice Gavignet, Stéphanie Hierso and Philippe Humbert -- Inflammatory and Immunological Responses to Toxocara canis / Stephen G. Kayes -- Novel Approaches to Immunoprophylaxis for Toxocariasis / Gabriela Hrc̆ková -- Epidemiological Surveillance of Toxocara and Toxocariasis / John W. Lewis -- Exposure and Environmental Contamination / Hanna Mizgajska-Wiktor and Shoji Uga -- Baylisascariasis : an Emerging and Potentially Fatal Form of Larval Migrans / Corey S. Watts, Jennifer L. Liang and Peter M. Schantz -- Current and Future Options for the Prevention and Treatment of Canids / Christian Epe -- Toxocariasis : the Veterinarian's Role in Prevention of Zoonotic Transmission / Peter M. Schantz -- Toxocara vitulorum in Livestock / Wilma A. Starke-Buzetti -- Economic Impact of Toxocara spp. / Paul R. Torgerson and Christine M. Budke. 
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520 3 # |a This book contains 19 chapters focusing on Toxocara and the disease it causes known as toxocariasis. The chapters are divided into the following parts: molecular biology (3 chapters); Toxocara as a model system (2); animal models for toxocariasis (1); human disease (4); immunology of toxocariasis (2); epidemiology of toxocariasis (3); Toxocara in the veterinary context (3); economic impact of the disease (1). It will interest a wide range of general, veterinary and medical parasitologists as well as clinicians and those concerned with public health. 
530 # # |a Also available in print format. 
588 # # |a Title from PDF title page (viewed August 16, 2013). 
650 # 0 |a Toxocara. 
650 # 2 |a Toxocariasis  |x etiology. 
650 # 2 |a Toxocara  |x pathogenicity. 
650 # 0 |a Larva migrans, Visceral. 
650 # 4 |a Health Economics, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Animal Models of Human Diseases, (New March 2000) 
650 # 4 |a Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000) 
650 # 7 |a Man.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Toxocara.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Animal models.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Asthma.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Brain.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Brain diseases.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Clinical aspects.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Disease models.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Economic evaluation.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Economic impact.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Epidemiology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Human diseases.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Immunology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Molecular biology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Public health.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Toxocariasis.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Veterinary parasitology.  |2 cabt 
650 # 7 |a Zoonoses.  |2 cabt 
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700 1 # |a Smith, H. V.  |e editor of compilation.  |q (Huw V.), 
700 1 # |a Holland, Celia,  |e editor of compilation. 
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