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Informationen zum Autor Louis M. Weiss, M.D., M.P.H. is an attending physician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and at the Bronx Municipal Hospital, where he also serves as a consulting physician in parasitology and tropical medicine. Dr. Weiss is a peer reviewer for numerous journals including the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , Parasitology Research , and Clinical Infectious Disease . The author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles, Dr. Weiss has contributed chapters and monographs to dozens of books in the field, andis a co-editor of five previous books on parasitology and infectious disease. James J. Becnel, Ph.D , is Lead Scientist and Research Entomologist with the USDA-ARS in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Becnel serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Invertebrate Pathology and Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology , and has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on parasitology and entomology related topics. Klappentext Microsporidia: Pathogens of Opportunity provides a systematic overview of the biology of microsporidia. Written by leading experts in the field, the book combines background and basic information on microsporidia with descriptive methods and resources for working with the pathogen.Newly revised and updated for its second edition, Microsporidia will continue to be the standard text reference for these pathogenic protists, and is an indispensable research resource for biologists,physicians and parasitologists.This new edition of this publication provides systematic reviews of the biology of this pathogen by leading experts in the field, and will be combined with descriptions of the methods and resources for working with this pathogen.* Provides a comprehensive summary of literature on microsporidia and microsporidiosis* The long-awaited update to the standard microsporidia reference text The Microsporidia and Microsporidiosis* Written by an international team of authors representing each of the main research groups working on microsporidia* Chapters provide comprehensive overviews of general methodology as well as special techniques related to these organisms Zusammenfassung Provides an overview of the biology of microsporidia. This book combines background and basic information on microsporidia with descriptive methods and resources for working with the pathogen. It deals with general methodologies as well as special techniques related to these organisms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv 1. Structure of Microsporidia 1 Ji¿í Vávra and J. I. Ronny Larsson 2. Developmental Morphology and Life Cycles of the Microsporidia 71 Ann Cali and Peter M. Takvorian 3. Epidemiology of Microsporidia in Human Infections 135 Ronald Fayer and Monica Santin-Duran 4. Epizootiology of Microsporidiosis in Invertebrate Hosts 165 Leellen F. Solter 5. Phylogenetic Place of Microsporidia in the Tree of Eukaryotes 195 Patrick J. Keeling 6. Phylogeny of the Microsporidia 203 Charles R. Vossbrinck, Bettina A. Debrunner-Vossbrinck and Louis M. Weiss 7. Microsporidian Genome Structure and Function 221 Patrick J. Keeling, Naomi M. Fast and Nicolas Corradi 8. Sex and the Microsporidia 231 Soo Chan Lee, Joseph Heitman and Joseph E. Ironside 9. Microsporidian Biochemistry and Physiology 245 Bryony A. P. Williams, Viacheslav V. Dolgikh and Yuliya Y. Sokolova 10. The Microsporidian Polar Tube and Spore Wall 261 Louis M. Weiss, Frédéric Delbac, J. Russell Hayman, Guoqing Pan, Xiaoqun Dang and Zeyang Zhou 11. The Immunology of Microsporidiosis in Mammals 307 Elizabeth S. Didier and Imtiaz A. Khan 12. Mammalian Animal Models of Human...
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"This book represents a massive undertaking, involved 47 contributors, is splendidly produced and illustrated, and is surely destined to be the reference on the phylum for the foreseeable future. It really opened my eyes to the enormous diversity and importance of these "newcomers" to kingdom Fungi, and I have no doubt that most mycologists will have a similar reaction." ( IMA Fungus , 1 December 2014)
