The ten-thousand year fever : rethinking human and wild primate malarias /
"Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular bi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
2011.
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| Series: | New frontiers in historical ecology ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | https://recursos.uloyola.es/login?url=https://accedys.uloyola.es:8443/accedix0/sitios/ebook.php?id=159562 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- malaria as a primate disorder
- Co-evolution: parasites, vectors, and hosts
- Falciparum type: the great ape malaria
- Vivax type: the macaque malaria
- Migration: malaria in the New World
- Rhesus factor: experimental studies in wild primates
- Ethics: human experimentation
- Future: the primate malaria landscape
- Appendix 1.
- Plasmodia parasites and their natural primate hosts
- Appendix 2.
- Experimentally induced plasmodium cross-infections into novel hosts
- Appendix 3.
- Naturally acquired cross-infections with novel malaria parasites
- Appendix 4.
- Primate species and all infections with plasmodium parasites.