| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Chemical immunology ; vol. 70 |
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Chemical immunology ; vol. 70.
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| Contents |
Immunity to Listeria monocytogenes -- Immunity to mycobacteria with emphasis on tuberculosis: Implications for rational design of an effective tuburculosis vaccine -- Experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis: Induction and regulation of T cells following infection of mice with Leishmania major -- Immunoregulation during toxoplasmosis -- Immunological control of Cryptosporidium infection -- Immunology of Trypanosoma cruzi infections -- Immune response to asexual blood stages of malaria parasites -- Immunobiology of Theileria parva in cattle -- Immunobiology of African trypanosomiasis |
| Summary |
Intracellular prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms cause some of the most intractable problems in the fields of human and animal infectious diseases. Such infections are characteristically long and chronic and accompanied by deleterious immunopathological changes. The nine chapters in this volume, all written by internationally acknowledged experts in their fields, explore the immunological features common to representative intracellular organisms and also the special features whereby particular species evade immune attack and how they are destroyed with special reference to experimental and human listeriosis, tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, African and American trypanosomiasis, malaria, cryptosporidiosis and the cattle disease theileriosis. The emphasis is on the roles of lymphocytes, macrophages, NK cells, cytokines and the contrasting roles of Th1/Th2 cells in protective and counter-protective immune responses. The importance of understanding these phenomena for the development of vaccines, for strategies for ameliorating immunopathological responses and for explaining why some infections are important concomitants in AIDS while others are not is stressed. This volume brings together and establishes links between diverse studies concerning the immunological aspects of the host-parasite relationship otherwise scattered throughout the literature. Authoritative and up-to-date, it will be of particular interest to anyone working or teaching in the fields of immunology, parasitology, microbiology and infectious diseases |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Immunology.
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Intracellular pathogens.
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Parasitic diseases -- Immunological aspects
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Parasitic Diseases -- immunology
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Allergy and Immunology
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Host-Parasite Interactions -- immunology
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Parasitic Diseases -- prevention & control
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Immunology
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Intracellular pathogens
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Parasitic diseases -- Immunological aspects
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Parasitisme.
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Immuniteit (cellulair)
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Immuunreacties.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Liew, F. Y. (Foo Yew), 1943-
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Cox, Francis E. G.
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| ISBN |
331800264X |
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9783318002645 |
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