Trypanosomes and Trypanosomiasis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Magez, Stefan (Editor), Radwanska, Magdalena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Parasitology.; Infectious diseases.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.

This new volume written by experts in the field of trypanosome research covers every aspect of trypanosome-vector-host biology. It is a must read for basic researchers working with trypanosomes and related organisms, infection and drug development as well as parasitology in a broader sense.

Table of Contents:

• Tsetse fly biology: where it all starts
• Trypanolytic activity of NHS: a first defense
• Antigenic variation: the answer to host immunity
• Early onset of host immunity: the big unknown
• Myeloid cells: parasite control versus pathology
• Adaptive immunity - T cells: old and new views on defense part I
• Adaptive immunity - B cells: old and new views on defense part II
• Proteomics of trypanosomes: what’s in there
• Diagnosis: when to treat and when not
• Drug design: the past, the present and future
• Nanobody technology: a novel approach to an old fight
• Sodalis as expression system: using the Trojan horse
• Nagana: it’s not all about HAT.