Editors:
- Addresses vital questions of immunopathology surrounding malaria, which kills more than 1 million people annually
- Discusses drug resistance of the parasite, insecticide resistance of the mosquito, and the effects of poverty and social and political upheaval
- Includes useful insight and feedback from immunologists working in other infectious diseases
- Will be of interest to malariologists, and also to the broader immunological community
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology (CT MICROBIOLOGY, volume 297)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Malaria is still a major global health problem, killing more than 1 million people every year. Almost all of these deaths are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, one of the four species of malaria parasites infecting humans. This high burden of mortality falls heavily on Sub-Saharan Africa, where over 90% of these deaths are thought to occur, and 5% of children die before the age of 5 years. The death toll from malaria is still growing, with malaria-specific mortality in young African children estimated to have doubled during the last twenty years. This increase has been associated with drug resistance of the parasite, spread of insecticide resistant mosquitoes, poverty, social and political upheaval, and lack of effective vaccines.
This collection of reviews addresses many of these important issues of malarial immunity and immunopathology. They are of interest not only to malariologists, but hopefully also to the broader immunological community. Strong interactions with, and feedback from immunologists working in other infectious diseases and in basic immunology will help us to move the field of malaria immunology and therapeutic intervention forward more quickly.
Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Parasitology, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Jean Langhorne
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Immunology and Immunopathogenesis of Malaria
Editors: Jean Langhorne
Series Title: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29967-X
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25718-9Published: 20 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42184-6Published: 25 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29967-7Published: 09 January 2006
Series ISSN: 0070-217X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9965
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 234
Topics: Immunology