Advances in Parasitology

by Elsevier Science

Overview

First published in 1963, Advances in Parasitology contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology.

Now edited by J.R. Baker (Royal School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, UK), R. Muller (International Institute of Parasitology, UK) and D. Rollinson (The Natural History Museum, UK), supported by an international Editorial Board, Advances in Parasitology includes medical studies on parasites of major influence, such as typanosomiasis and scabies, and reviews of more traditional areas, such as zoology, taxonomy, and life history, which shape current thinking and applications. Eclectic volumes are supplemented by thematic volumes on such topics as Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Epidemiology.

In 1999, the Institute for Scientific Information released figures showing that Advances in Parasitology has an Impact Factor of 4.913, placing it 2nd in the highly competitive category of Parasitology.

Key Features:

* First in the ISI Parasitology List in 2000

* ISI Impact Factor of 6.724 in 2000

* Series encompasses over 35 years of parasitology coverage

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080580838
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/11/1996
Series:	ISSN , #37
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	342
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Professor David Rollinson is a Merit Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he leads a research team in the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for schistosomiasis. He has had a long fascination with parasites and the diseases that they cause, this has involved him in many overseas projects especially in Africa. He is on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of parasitic diseases, the editor of Advances in Parasitology and a former President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. His research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, which combines detailed molecular studies in the laboratory with ongoing collaborative studies in endemic areas of disease, to explore the intriguing world of parasites in order to help control and eliminate parasitic diseases.

Table of Contents

I.A. Clark and K.A. Rockett, Nitric Oxide and Parasitic Disease.
J.E. Bradley and T.R. Unnasch, Molecular Approaches to the Diagnosis of Onchocerciasis.
R. Poulin, The Evolution of Life History Strategies in Parasitic Animals.
I. Beveridge and D.M. Spratt, The Helminth Fauna of Australasian Marsupials: Origins and Evolutionary Biology.
J.J. Schall, Malarial Parasites of Lizards: Diversity and Ecology.
Chapter References.
Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES "One is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing." —PARASITOLOGY

"The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers." —ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY

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