Overview
- Explores links between parasite dynamics, land-use and global warming in Southeast Asia
- Bundles ample data on molecular identification and parasite genetic diversity
- An important account for literature in tropical medicine and parasitology
Part of the book series: Parasitology Research Monographs (Parasitology Res. Monogr., volume 14)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The richly illustrated chapters are completed by new approaches in diagnostic methods, treatment and prevention to protect humans and animals from tropical parasite infections. Not only parasitologists and experts in tropical medicine but also public health officials and travelers will find this volume highly informative.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Weerachai Saijuntha is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Walai Rukhavej Botanical Research Institute, Mahasarakham University in Thailand. His research interests include the molecular systematics and population genetics of terrestrial animals, parasites, and vectors in Southeast Asia. The main focus of research is on pathogenic parasites and their snail intermediate hosts. He has been active in molecular systematics and genetic variation research of medially important trematodes and bithyniid snails for 12 years and has published over 60 peer reviewed original research articles, refereed reviews, and specialist book chapters. He has received a number of national and international awards as a result of his research which is continuously improving our understanding of parasites and the diseases they transmit in Southeast Asia and globally.
Professor Heinz Mehlhorn studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn (Germany). He was chairman of the parasitological institutes in Düsseldorf and Bochum. As a former president of the World Society of Protozoology and long-standing member of the steering committee of the World Society of Parasitologists he runs ongoing lectures in parasitology in several countries and teaches courses for medical students in Düsseldorf. He has published a variety of specialist books on parasitological problems in German, French, English and Spanish. He holds the patents on 12 antiparasitic drugs, which are the basis of products sold by the university spin-off company Alpha-Biocare GmbH (Neuss, Germany), which produces medications, repellents and wound care products for humans and animals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biodiversity of Southeast Asian Parasites and Vectors causing Human Disease
Editors: Trevor N. Petney, Weerachai Saijuntha, Heinz Mehlhorn
Series Title: Parasitology Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71161-0
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 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71160-3Published: 22 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71163-4Published: 23 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71161-0Published: 21 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2192-3671
Series E-ISSN: 2192-368X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 209
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour
Topics: Parasitology, Tropical Medicine, Zoology