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Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads

The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today

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Editors:
  1. Heinz Mehlhorn

    1. Department of Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  2. Xiaoying Wu

    1. The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

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  3. Zhongdao Wu

    1. Deptartment of Parasitology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China

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  • Depicts parasite and disease spread along the world´s longest trade route
  • Promotes interdisciplinary and cross-national disease research
  • Connects medicine to palaeoparasitology and cultural history

Part of the book series: Parasitology Research Monographs (Parasitology Res. Monogr., volume 17)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  3. Parasite and Disease Spread Along the Silk Roads: A Review to Date

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Infectious Diseases in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Countries

      • Xiaoying Wu, Zhongdao Wu
      Pages 57-62

    3. Disease Details on Plague (Black Death), Cholera, Brucellosis, and Tick-Borne Encephalitis Along the Silk Road(s) of Former and Recent Times

      • Heinz Mehlhorn
      Pages 63-81

    4. Plague Disease: From Asia to Europe and Back along the Silk Road

      • Günter A. Schaub, Patric U. B. Vogel
      Pages 83-112

    5. Dengue along the Silk Road

      • Xiaoying Zheng
      Pages 113-129

    6. Intestinal Parasites at the Xuanquanzhi Relay Station on the Silk Road 2000 Years Ago

      • Piers D. Mitchell, Hui-Yuan Yeh
      Pages 131-139

    7. Dicrocoelium in Iran: From Bronze Age to the Twenty-First Century

      • Alireza Sazmand, Alireza Nourian, Masoud Nezamabadi
      Pages 141-152

    8. Development of Vaccine to Stop Endemic of Hydatid Disease and Promote Connectivity of the Belt and Road Initiative

      • Yilin Zhang, Jie Liu
      Pages 153-172

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 173-174
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About this book

The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civilizations past and today. Compiled by an international team of subject authors, this book includes two themed parts. Readers are first introduced into history naming, former, present and future routes of the Silk Road, representing the longest trade way and culture diffuser in the world. The second part contains the main book focus and addresses medical research as well as individual diseases and parasite groups from the region in detail. By drawing an arc between the past and present disease situation, the authors trace how parasites and vectors spread around the globe, and what impact infectious diseases had and will have upon human civilizations.

Through its interdisciplinary character this book will be enjoyed by interested readers from the fields of parasitology and palaeoparasitology, medical sciences and public health, as well as cultural history.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Parasitology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

    Heinz Mehlhorn

  • The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Xiaoying Wu

  • Deptartment of Parasitology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China

    Zhongdao Wu

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Heinz Mehlhorn has retired from Düsseldorf University and was President of the German and World Societies of Parasitology and Protozoology. He has published 80 parasitology books and is currently chairman of a German company, which has developed products against parasites.

Prof. Zhongdao Wu, PhD is an internationally well known Professor of human parasitology at the Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is engaged in research projects on prevention and control of parasitic diseases such as snail-borne parasitic diseases as well as schistosomiasis, liver fluke, as well as mosquito-borne diseases. He has also participated in multiple international cooperation projects and thus visited countries such as Niger, Zanzibar, Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, Laos, etc. to exchange ideas on parasitic disease prevention and control. As teacher he is engaged in the Medical school, where he also has trained many graduate students and doctors from the Belt and Road countries thus spreading important knowledge.

Dr. Xiaoying Wu has received her Ph.D. at the School of Public Health at the Sun Yat-sen University. She studied at the University of Birmingham (UK) and completed her postdoctoral work at the School of Public Health at Fudan University. Currently, she is employed at the Department of Gastroenterology at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Her primary research focus is on clinical epidemiology of chronic and infectious inflammatory diseases. Dr. Wu led a graduate research team conducting a three-year field epidemiological investigation in the schistosomiasis japonica endemic areas in China, and established a cohort of patients with advanced schistosomiasis japonica. She also participated in teaching the clinical eight-year program course "Tropical Diseases and Global Health". In addition Dr. Wu is a member of the Health Data and Digital Medicine Branch of the ChinaInternational Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care.




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads

  • Book Subtitle: The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today

  • Editors: Heinz Mehlhorn, Xiaoying Wu, Zhongdao Wu

  • Series Title: Parasitology Research Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35275-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • 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 Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35274-4Published: 20 September 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35277-5Due: 21 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35275-1Published: 19 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2192-3671

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-368X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 174

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Parasitology, Medicine/Public Health, general, Paleoecology, Cultural History, Public Health

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