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Molecular Approaches to Parasitology
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Describes the dramatic advances in the field during the recent past, focusing on the ways in which molecular tools can be used to study the biology of parasites. Reflects the successful transfection of Leishmania, Trypanosoma, Toxoplasma and Plasmodium—a major breakthrough which allowed investigation into a range of new areas. The role of cytokines in immunity to parasites dominates the work on immunology. Also covers entirely new arenas including RNA editing.
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Partial table of contents:

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION.

Systematics: Questions and Approaches for the Molecular Parasitologist (T. Unnasch & P. Zimmerman).

Antigenic Variation in Giardia Lamblia (T. Nash).

Biological Functions of Nematode Surfaces (T. Geary, et al.).

METABOLISM AND DRUG ACTION.

Invermectin (S. Rohrer & J. Schaeffer).

Hypoxanthine-Guanine Phosphoribosyltransferase in Trypanosomatids: A Rational Target for Antiparasitic Chemotherapy (B. Ullman & T. Allen).

GENOMES.

The Replication of Kinetoplast DNA (P. Englund, et al.).

GENE EXPRESSION AND GENETICS.

Drug Resistance and Transfection in Plasmodium (D. Wirth).

Trans-Splicing in Flatworms (R. Davis).

CELL BIOLOGY.

Cell Biology of Trichomonads: Protein Targeting to the Hydrogenosome (P. Johnson, et al.).

IMMUNE RESPONSE.

The Immunology of Schistosomiasis (E. Pearce).

Appendix.

Index.

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