Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2006
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (313 p.)
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Disciplina |
616.9/59
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Altri autori (Persone) |
HollandCelia
SmithH. V (Huw V.)
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Soggetto topico |
Larva migrans, Visceral
Toxocara
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ISBN |
1-280-73584-8
9786610735846
1-84593-027-4
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""SECTION 1: BIOLOGY OF TOXOCARA""; ""Molecular Biology""; ""1. Molecular Biology and Immunology of Toxocara canis""; ""2. Molecular Genetic Characterization of Members of the Genus Toxocara � Taxonomic, Population Genetic and Epidemiological Considerations""; ""3. The Larval Surface""; ""Toxocara as a model system""; ""4. Toxocara and Asthma""; ""5. The Significance of Cerebral Toxocariasis""; ""Animal models for toxocariasis""; ""6. Critical Assessment of Existing and Novel Model Systems of Toxocariasis""
""SECTION 2: CLINICAL ASPECTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH""""Human disease""; ""7. Diagnostic Limitations and Future Trends in the Serodiagnosis of Human Toxocariasis""; ""8. Management and Treatment Options for Human Toxocariasis""; ""9. Ocular Toxocariasis""; ""10. Toxocariasis and the Skin""; ""Immunology of toxocariasis""; ""11. Inflammatory and Immunological Responses to Toxocara canis""; ""12. Novel Approaches to Immunoprophylaxis for Toxocariasis""; ""Epidemiology of toxocariasis""; ""13. Epidemiological Surveillance of Toxocara and Toxocariasis""
""14. Exposure and Environmental Contamination""""15. Baylisascariasis: an Emerging and Potentially Fatal Form of Larval Migrans""; ""SECTION 3: TOXOCARA IN THE VETERINARY CONTEXT""; ""16. Current and Future Options for the Prevention and Treatment of Canids""; ""17. Toxocariasis: the Veterinarian�s Role in Prevention of Zoonotic Transmission""; ""18. Toxocara vitulorum in Livestock""; ""SECTION 4: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE DISEASE""; ""19. Economic Impact of Toxocara spp.""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""
""S""""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
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