Toxoplasma Gondii - The Model Apicomplexan. Perspectives and Methods

Informationen zum Autor Louis M. Weiss M.D.! M.P.H is Professor of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Pathology (Division of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine) of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine! Bronx! New York. Dr. Weiss received his M.D. and M.P.H degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1982. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following this fellowship! he joined the faculty at Einstein where he is currently a Professor of Pathology and Medicine. His laboratory group has an active research program on parasitic diseases with a research focus on Toxoplasma gondii! the Microsporidia and Trypanosoma cruzi. Dr. Weiss is the author of over 200 publications and the editor of 3 books on parasitology. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians! Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the Co-Director of the Einstein Global Health Center. Kami Kim M.D. is Professor of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases)! Professor of Pathology (Division of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine) and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine! Bronx! New York. Dr. Kim received her M.D. degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1984. She trained in internal medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and in infectious diseases at the University of California! San Francisco. Following her clinical training! she did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine! after which she joined the faculty at Einstein where she is currently a Professor of Medicine! Pathology and Microbiology and Immunology. Her laboratory research is focused upon understanding the pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis and malaria. Recently she has developed collaborations with clinical investigators at the Blantyre Malaria Project in Malawi to understand the clinical impact of HIV co-infection upon cerebral malaria. She is also interested in understanding epigenetic and genetic factors that govern the host response to parasitic infections! opportunistic pathogens and tuberculosis. Dr. Kim is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Infectious Disease Society of America and an elected member of the Association for American Physcians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Klappentext This 2e of Toxoplasma gondii reflects the significant advances in the field in the last 5 years! including new information on the genomics! epigenomics and proteomics of T. gondii as well as a new understanding of the population biology and genetic diversity of this organism. T. gondii remains the best model system for studying the entire Apicomplexa group of protozoans! which includes Malaria! making this new edition essential for a broad group of researchers and scientists. Toxoplasmosis is caused by a one-celled protozoan parasite known as T. gondii. The infection produces a wide range of clinical syndromes in humans! land and sea mammals! and various bird species. In the United States! it is estimated that approximately 30% of cats! the primary carriers! have been infected by T. gondii. Approximately 1 in 4 (more than 60 million) people in the United States are infected with the parasite! and in the UK between 0.5% and 1% of individuals become infected each year. By the age of 50! 40% of people test positive for the parasite. Most humans contract toxoplasmosis by eating contaminated! raw or undercooked meat (particularly pork)! vegetables! or milk products! by coming into contact with the T. gondii eggs from cat feces! or by drinking contaminated water. The parasite damages the ocular and central nervous systems! causing behavioral and personality alter...

Product details

• Authors: Kami Kim, Louis Weiss, Louis M. Weiss, Louis M./ Kim Weiss
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 12.09.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9780123964816
• ISBN: 978-0-12-396481-6
• No. of pages: 800
• Series: Academic Press; Academic Press
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Microbiology