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Record Nr.

UNINA9910522570403321

Titolo

Lifecycles of Pathogenic Protists in Humans / / edited by Wanderley de Souza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783030806828

9783030806811

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (617 pages)

Collana

Microbiology Monographs, , 1862-5584 ; ; 35

Disciplina

616.96

Soggetti

Parasitology

Veterinary microbiology

Microbiology

Medical microbiology

Veterinary Microbiology

Medical Microbiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Life Cycle of Pathogenic Protists: Trypanosoma Cruzi -- Progress in Research on African Trypanosomes: Highlights from an Exceptional Decade -- Leishmania and Their Vertebrate Host Cells -- The Actual Knowledge of the Biology of the Leishmania-Sandfly Vector Interaction -- Plasmodium: Vertebrate Host -- Cellular and Molecular Interactions of Plasmodium with Mosquito Vectors -- Cryptosporidium -- Toxoplasma Gondii: Asexual Cycle in the Intermediate Host -- Toxoplasma Gondii: Detailed Description of the Coccidian (Asexual and Sexual) Development and Oocyst Sporulation -- Entamoeba Histolytica and Entamoeba Dispar -- Cell Biology of the Life Cycle of Giardia Intestinalis -- Trichomonas Vaginalis: Lifestyle, Cellular Biology, and Molecular Mechanisms of Pathogenesis. .

Sommario/riassunto

This volume covers the most important parasitic protists that are known to infect humans. The pathogens discussed cause diseases like toxoplasmosis, malaria, cryptosporidiosis, leishmaniasis, amoebiasis, trichomoniasis, and giardiasis. Readers from microbiology will



appreciate the special focus on protist cell biology. As demonstrated in several of the chapters, these parasites are characterized by peculiar structures and organelles that cannot be found in mammalian cells – even though both are eukaryotic. The book employs light and electron microscopy to display the changing morphology in various stages of parasitic development. In turn, the results are supplemented by transcriptome and proteome profiles that help to describe how these changes take place on a molecular level. Both researchers and clinicians from tropical medicine will find essential and practically applicable background information on these increasingly important pathogens.