Malaria : molecular and clinical aspects / edited by Mats Wahlgren and Peter Perlmann.

1. Milestones and Millstones in the History of Malaria 2. What Is Malaria? 3. The Malaria Parasite and Life-cycle 4. The Epidemiology of Malaria 5. Clinical Features of Malaria 6. Molecular Malariology 7. The Anopheles Mosquito: Genomics and Transformation 8. The Malaria Genome 9. The Malaria Antige...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Wahlgren, Mats, Perlmann, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Australia ; Canada : Harwood Academic, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. Milestones and Millstones in the History of Malaria
  • What is Malaria?
  • 2. The Malaria Parasite and its Life-cycle
  • 3. The Epidemiology of Malaria
  • 4. Clinical Features of Malaria
  • Molecular Malariology
  • 5. The Anopheles Mosquito: Genomics and Transformation
  • 6. The Malaria Genome
  • 7. The Malaria Antigens
  • 8. Genetic Approaches to the Determinants of Drug Response, Pathogenesis and Infectivity in Plasmodium falciparum Malaria
  • 9. The Sporozoite, the Merozoite, and the Infected Red Cell: Parasite Ligands and Host Receptors
  • Pathogenesis and Resistance
  • 10. Cytoadherence and Rosetting in the Pathogenesis of Severe Malaria
  • 11. Inflammatory Processes in the Pathogenesis of Malaria
  • 12. Inborn Resistance to Malaria
  • 13. Burkitt's Lymphoma and Malaria
  • Malaria Immunology and Vaccines
  • 14. The Role of T Cells in Immunity to Malaria and the Pathogenesis of Disease
  • 15. Malaria Vaccines
  • 16. Synthetic Peptides as Malaria Vaccines
  • 17. SPf66: The First and Towards the Second Generation of Malarial Vaccines.