Control of Human Parasitic Diseases /

• Other Authors: Molyneux, D. H. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; London : Academic Press, 2006.
• Series: Advances in parasitology ; v. 61.
• Subjects: Medical parasitology.; MEDICAL > Parasitology.; Infectieziekten.; Parasitic Diseases > prevention & control.; Electronic books.

This volumes reviews state-of-the-art methods and historic successes of disease control.

Table of Contents:

• Control of human parasitic diseases: context and overview / David H. Molyneux
• Malaria chemotherapy / Peter Winstanley, Stephen Ward
• Insecticide-treated nets / Jenny Hil, Jo Lines, Mark Rowland
• Control of Chagas disease / Yoichi Yamagata, Jun Nakagawa
• Human African trypanosomiasis: epidemiology and control / E.M. Fèvre, K. Picozzi, J. Jannin, S.C. Welburn, I. Maudlin
• Chemotherapy in the treatment and control of leishmaniasis
• Jorge Alvar, Simon Croft, Piero Olliaro
• Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) eradication / Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, Donald R. Hopkins
• Intervention for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the community / Marco Albonico, Antonio Montresor, D.W.T. Crompton, Lorenzo Savioli
• Control of onchocerciasis / Boakye A. Boatin, Frank O. Richards
• Lynmphatic filariasis: treatment, control and elimination / Eric A. Ottesen
• Control of cystic echinococcosis/hydatidosis: 1863-2002 / P.S. Craig, E. Larrieu
• Control of Taenia solium cysticercosis/taeniosis / Arve Lee Willingham, Dirk Engels
• Implementation of human schistosomiasis control: challenges and prospects / Alan Fenwick, David Rollinson, Vaughan Southgate.