The microsporidia and microsporidiosis / editor, Murray Wittner ; contributing editor, Louis M. Weiss.

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Other Authors: Wittner, Murray, Weiss, Louis M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, ©1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Historic perspective on the microsporidia: expanding horizons / Murray Winter
  • Structure of the microsporidia / Jiřʹi Vʹavra and J.I. Ronny Larsson
  • Developmental morphology and life cycles of the microsporidia / Ann Cali and Peter M. Tavorkian
  • Molecular biology, molecular phylogeny, and molecular diagnostic approaches to the microsporidia / Louis M. Weiss and Charles R. Vossbrinck
  • Microsporidian biochemistry and physiology / Earl Weidner, Ann M. Findley, V. Dolgikh, and J. Sokolova
  • The structure, function, and composition of the microsporidian polar tube / Elaine M. Keohane and Louis M. Weiss
  • Host-parasite relationships in microsporidiosis: animal models and immunology / Elizabeth S. Didier and G. Todd Bessinger
  • Clinical syndromes associated with microsporidiosis / Donald P. Kotler and Jan M. Orenstein
  • Ocular microsporidiosis / Dorothy Nahm Friedberg and David C. Ritterband
  • Laboratory diagnosis of microsporidiosis / Rainer Weber, David A. Schwartz, and Peter Deplazes
  • Culture and propagation of microsporidia / Govinda S. Visvesvara, Hercules Moura, Gordon J. Leitch, and David A. Schwartz
  • Microsporidia in higher vertebrates / Karen F. Snowden and John A. Shadduck
  • Fish microsporidia / Ross W. Shaw and Michael L. Kent
  • Microsporidia in insects / James J. Becnel and Theodore G. Andreadis
  • Epidemiology of microsporidiosis / Ralph T. Bryan and David A. Schwartz
  • Appendix: checklist of available generic names for microsporidia with type species and type hosts / Victor Sprague and James J. Becnel.