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This volume brings together updated fundamental knowledge of the schistosomes, their biology and epidemiology, the mechanism of disease and a full description of the pathological sequelae and clinical syndromes in humans. It concludes with chapters on diagnosis and treatment prospects of vaccine development and the most significant controversies regarding immunology and epidemiology.
Contents:

• Schistosomiasis: Setting the Stage (A AF Mahmoud)
• The Schistosomes and Their Intermediate Hosts (R F Sturrock)
• The Structure and Expression of the Schist

Schistosomiasis. --- Distomatosis. --- Distomiasis --- Trematode infections --- Helminthiasis --- Bilharziasis --- Bilharziosis --- Katayama disease --- Snail fever --- Distomatosis

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Geneeskunde en aanverwante wetenschappen --- Médecine et sciences connexes --- Sciences appliquées --- Toegepaste wetenschappen --- Bilharzioses --- Bilharziosis --- 616

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Freshwater snails --- Snails as carriers of disease --- Schistosomiasis --- Transmission --- Snails. --- Trematoda. --- Trematode Infections. --- Bilharziasis --- Bilharziosis --- Katayama disease --- Snail fever --- Gasteropoda as carriers of disease --- Gastropoda as carriers of disease --- Distomatosis --- Mollusks as carriers of disease --- Freshwater invertebrates --- Snails

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The goal of Schistosomiasis is to provide the reader with insights into the active research and programs currently related to schistosomiasis, and to use these insights as a way to project forward into the next 10-15 years of work on this disease, spanning the spectrum from research to public health interventions. A secondary goal of this volume is to initiate conversations among those working across the research-to-control spectrum on schistosomiasis about the future of their field, and by doing so lead to constructive efforts to identify and address the most critical questions and challenges related to schistosomiasis. The book covers four main areas: schistosome phylogenetics, gene expression, and the overall genome, including information on exciting new tools for addressing questions that have long been inaccessible to schistosomologists; the host-schistosome interaction at the larval to adult worm interface and addresses aspects important for vaccine development as well as how differential gene expression as detected by DNA microarrays may be utilized to develop tools for detection and control of infection or pathology; the development of the host immune response to eggs, granuloma formation and factors affecting the development and regulation of immunopathology; and the public health concerns associated with schistosomiasis, including morbidity control, host genetics, treatment and proposals for improved partnerships. The volume concludes with a chapter addressing the schisms that sometimes exist along the spectrum from basic research programs to the implementation of control schemes, and a proposal to make these differences benefit patients and researchers rather than succumb to base temptations to compete for resources to no one’s benefit. Like many of the diseases featured in the World Class Parasites series, the prospects for dramatic advances in schistosomiasis coincide with a seemingly shrinking pool of both human and material resources. The most meaningful progress will occur as the laboratory better understands the needs in the field and the field better understands the capabilities of the laboratory.

Schistosomiasis. --- Distomatosis. --- Distomiasis --- Trematode infections --- Helminthiasis --- Bilharziasis --- Bilharziosis --- Katayama disease --- Snail fever --- Distomatosis --- Morphology (Animals). --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Animal morphology --- Animals --- Body form in animals --- Zoology --- Morphology --- Animal anatomy. --- Infectious diseases. --- Animal anatomy --- Biology --- Physiology --- Anatomy

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Through all of the recent progress and publications on Schistosoma haematobium, S. mansoni and S. japonicum and diseases these parasites cause in human beings – engulfing Africa, South America and East Asia, it has become necessary to fill the gaps from South Asia perspective too, especially India from where many mammalian schistosome species have been discovered namely Schistosoma indicum, and S. spindale, S. nasale, S. incognitum, Orientobilharzia dattai, O. bomfordi, and Bivitellobilharzia nairi. The history of schistosomes and schistosomiasis in Indian continent is more than hundred years old and a lot of research has been done to understand the infection in South Asian region. Authoritative and concise, Schistosomes and Schistosomiasis in South Asia covers all aspects of these schistosomes starting from taxonomy to life cycle, epidemiology, immunity, pathology, diagnosis (both parasitic and immunological diagnosis), chemotherapy and control. The book covers not only hepatic and nasal schistosomiasis in animals but also all the details on human schistosomiasis reported from this continent. There are also chapters which cover on experimental schistosome infections in laboratory animals and technologies developed for studying schistosomiasis.

Reproduction. --- Schistosoma. --- Schistosomiasis -- Developing countries -- History. --- Schistosomiasis. --- Trematoda --- Trematode Infections --- Platyhelminths --- Helminthiasis --- Helminths --- Parasitic Diseases --- Invertebrates --- Diseases --- Animals --- Eukaryota --- Organisms --- Schistosomatidae --- Schistosomiasis --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biology - General --- Bilharziasis --- Bilharziosis --- Katayama disease --- Snail fever --- Life sciences. --- Parasitology. --- Life Sciences. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Distomatosis --- Medical parasitology. --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Parasites