Fasciolosis Edition 2

Hardback
January 2022
9781789246162
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  • Publisher
    CABI
  • Published
    7th January 2022
  • ISBN 9781789246162
  • Language English
  • Pages 520 pp.
  • Size 6" x 9"
$241.00

Fasciolosis is a major global infection of livestock causing both huge losses to the agricultural community and affecting human health as a food-borne disease. Fully updated throughout, this new edition continues to cover: the life cycle, biology, and development of the parasite; immunology; diagnosis; vaccine development and emergence; and cause and mechanisms of drug resistance. It reviews the temperate liver fluke Fasciola hepatica, as well as molecular, biochemical and immunological aspects of the tropical liver fluke F. gigantica.

Many fundamental advances have taken place in the last two decades, but of particular importance has been the mapping of the draft genome of F. hepatica. In addition, comprehensive advances in transcriptomics, proteomics and glycomics have been made, and the book therefore pays particular attention to these developments with the addition of brand-new chapters. Also covering the impact these parasites have had on the global human population, its distribution and ecology, this book provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for scientists, researchers and students of medical and veterinary parasitology.

1: The Discovery of Fasciola hepatica and its Life Cycle. STUART J. ANDREWS, KRYSTYNA CWIKLINSKI AND JOHN PIUS DALTON.
2: Fasciola hepatica larval development within the intermediate host. GILLES DREYFUSS, PHILIPPE SINDOU, PHILIPPE HOURDIN, PHILIPPE VIGNOLES AND DANIEL RONDELAUD.
3: Development of Fasciola hepatica in the Mammalian Host. MARK W. ROBINSON, ROBERT E.B. HANNA AND IAN FAIRWEATHER.
4: The Reproductive System of Fasciola hepatica. ROBERT E.B. HANNA, IAN FAIRWEATHER AND MARK W. ROBINSON.
5: Pathology, Clinical Aspects and Pathophysiology. NICHOLAS C. SANGSTER, ALVARO MARTÍNEZ-MORENO AND JOSÉ PÉREZ.
6: Epidemiology and Control. GABRIELA KNUBBEN-SCHWEIZER, ANNE-SOPHIE RÖSSLER, EVA SCHADE-WESKOTT AND PAUL R. TORGERSON.
7: Flukicidal drugs: pharmaco-therapeutics and drug resistance. LUIS I. ALVAREZ, CARLOS E. LANUSSE, DIANA J.L. WILLIAMS, IAN FAIRWEATHER AND JANE E. HODGKINSON.
8: Metabolism. ALOYSIUS G. M. TIELENS AND JAAP J. VAN HELLEMOND.
9: Immunological interaction between Fasciola and its host. SHEILA DONNELLY, ROBIN FLYNN, GRACE MULCAHY AND SANDRA O’NEILL.
10: Diagnostics for animal and human fasciolosis. FLORENCIO M. UBEIRA, VICTORIA MARTÍNEZ-SERNÁNDEZ, MARTA GONZÁLEZ-WARLETA, MERCEDES MEZO.
11: Applying ‘omics’ technologies to understand Fasciola spp. biology. KRYSTYNA CWIKLINSKI, CAROLINA DE MARCO VERISSIMO, PAUL MCVEIGH, SHEILA DONNELLY AND JOHN P. DALTON.
12: Vaccines for Fasciola (liver fluke): new thinking for an old problem. TERRY W SPITHILL, HAYLEY TOET, VIGNESH RATHINASAMY, GEMMA ZERNA, JACLYN SWAN, TIMOTHY CAMERON, PETER M SMOOKER, DAVID M PIEDRAFITA, ROBERT DEMPSTER, TRAVIS BEDDOE.
13: Fasciola gigantica and Fasciola-hybrids in Southeast Asia. NICHOLA CALVANI AND JAN ŠLAPETA.
14: Global Impact of Human Fascioliasis. PREETAM GANDHI, RICHA CHANDRA, ESTHER K. SCHMITT, CHIEN-WEI CHEN, SANJAY SAMANTRAY, VINAY KUMAR VENISHETTY, DAVID HUGHES.

John P. Dalton, PhD

Professor John P. Dalton graduated from University College Dublin with a PhD in Molecular Parasitology, before becoming a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on schistosomes at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, then malaria at the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, MD. He briefly returned to Ireland as a lecturer at Dublin City University, before taking Director level roles at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, and later McGill University, Canada. Returning home in 2013, he became the Professor in Infectious Diseases at Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and since 2019 has taken the role of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Professor in Molecular Parasitology at the National University of Ireland Galway.

Fasciola hepatica; Fasciola gigantica; fasciolosis; fascioliasis; liver fluke; trematodes; parasites; helminths; snail vectors; development; immunology; vaccines; pathology; metabolism; neurobiology; genomics; transcriptomics; proteomics; glycomics; human fasciolosis