Toxocara : the enigmatic parasite /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Toxocara.; Toxocariasis > etiology.; Toxocara > pathogenicity.; Larva migrans, Visceral.; Health Economics, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Human Immunology and Allergology, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Animal Models of Human Diseases, (New March 2000); Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Man.; Animal models.; Asthma.; Brain.; Brain diseases.; Clinical aspects.; Disease models.; Economic evaluation.; Economic impact.; Epidemiology.; Human diseases.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Public health.; Toxocariasis.; Veterinary parasitology.; Zoonoses.; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.