T.K. Jha · E. Noiri Editors 2011 One of the most important challenges for third world countries is to educate and support their inhabitants to maintain an independent and comfortable lifestyle. Difficult enough when there is no health problem, but life-threatening infectious diseases are more prevalent in the tropical zone than in more temperate climates.
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Nigel Curtis ● Adam Finn ● Andrew J. Pollard Editors 2011 Each of the chapters in this book is based on a lecture given at the eighth ‘Infection and Immunity in Children’ (IIC) course held at the end of June 2010 at Keble College, Oxford. Thus, it is the eighth book in a series, which collectively provide […]
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Nigel Curtis · Adam Finn · Andrew J. Pollard Editors 2011 Each of the chapters in this book is based on a lecture given at the seventh ‘Infection and Immunity in Children’ (IIC) course held at the end of June 2009 at Keble College, Oxford. Thus, it is the seventh book in a series, which collectively provide succinct […]
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Rafael Toledo • Bernard Fried Editors 2011 The history of research on the relationships between Biomphalaria spp. and larval trematodes, particularly Schistosoma mansoni, is long, active, and ongoing today. Snails of the genus Biomphalaria are of significant medical importance with many species living in freshwater habitats associated with human settlements; many of these snail species are obligate intermediate hosts […]
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Heinz Mehlhorn Editor 2012 As a result of their repeated exodus “out of Africa,” the members of the species Homo sapiens settled finally all over the globe—even in very unpleasant biotopes. They used their growing brains—gifted with a droplet of divine illumination—to create a nearly unstoppable propagation, which now makes problems for seven billions of contemporaries in times of […]
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Michael G. Rossmann ● Venigalla B. Rao Editors 2012
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Henry M. Staines l Sanjeev Krishna Editors 2012 Malaria is a devastating disease that extracts huge health and economic costs from the poorest countries in endemic regions. Malaria is caused by single celled parasites, belonging to the genus Plasmodium that have infected humans (and related primates) for thousands of years.
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Janos Minarovits ● Hans Helmut Niller Editors 2012 Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms ensure the heritable transmission of gene expression patterns from one cell generation to another, helping progeny cells to “remember” their proper cellular identity.
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Serge Morand • François Beaudeau Jacques Cabaret Editors 2012 Dismissing the frontiers of species, and of ecosystems, the pathogens become major threats to man, its livestock and wildlife animals, in a global world facing global changes.
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Mark von Itzstein Editor 2012 Influenza virus remains a significant threat to humanity [1] despite the discovery of novel antiviral therapies and the continuing development of seasonal vaccines. Annual influenza epidemics exact a high toll in morbidity, estimated to be in the range of three to five million cases of severe illness, and mortality, with up to half […]
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