UID:
almahu_9949984063502882
Umfang:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780443152450
Anmerkung:
Front Cover -- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Protozoan Diseases -- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Protozoan Diseases -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 - Brief introduction to infectious diseases -- Infectious diseases -- Protozoan diseases -- Epidemiology of protozoan diseases -- References -- 2 - Malaria -- Introduction -- Global burden -- Life cycle and differences between different species -- Plasmodium falciparum -- Plasmodium vivax -- Plasmodium malariae -- Plasmodium ovale -- Plasmodium knowlesi -- Diagnosis -- Classical diagnostic techniques versus advance techniques -- Classical diagnostic techniques -- Microscopic and conventional analytical techniques -- Rapid detection approaches -- Molecular techniques -- Noninvasive diagnosis -- Advanced techniques -- New challenges in diagnostic/diagnostic marker -- Treatment -- Drugs -- Chloroquine -- Artemisinin -- Artemisinin-based combination therapies -- Amodiaquine -- Mefloquine -- Transmission blocking drugs -- Atovaquone -- Proguanil -- Antibiotics -- New-generation antimalarial drugs -- Vaccine -- Preerythrocytic vaccines -- Transmission-blocking vaccines -- Whole parasite vaccines -- Novel strategies -- Drug resistance -- Quinolines -- Antifolates -- Atovaquone -- Artemisinin -- Multidrug resistance -- Urgency -- Efficacy, safety, and effectiveness -- Summary -- References -- 3 - Leishmaniasis -- Introduction -- Global burden -- Cutaneous leishmaniasis -- Mucocutaneous leishmaniasis -- Visceral leishmaniasis -- Post-kala-azar leishmaniasis -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis -- Conventional diagnosis -- Parasitological methods -- Immunological methods -- Molecular methods -- Recent advancement -- Fluorescence-activated cell sorting -- Proteomics -- Advanced molecular methods -- Nanodiagnosis -- Treatment of leishmaniasis.
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Recent developments in the treatment of leishmaniasis -- Multidrug therapy -- Drug repurposing -- Nanotechnology -- Host-directed therapy -- Antimicrobial peptides -- Vaccine -- First-generation vaccines -- Whole-killed vaccines -- Fractionated Leishmania antigens -- Second-generation vaccines -- Genetically modified parasite vaccines -- Third-generation vaccines -- New strategy of vaccines -- Vaccine antigen delivery systems -- Chimeric vaccines -- Nonpathogen Leishmania spp. in vaccination -- Viral-like particle vaccines -- mRNA vaccines -- Conclusions and future perspectives -- References -- 4 - Trypanosomiasis -- Introduction -- life cycle and differences between different species -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Drug resistance -- Urgency -- Summary -- References -- 5 - Trichomoniasis -- Introduction -- Epidemiology -- Morphology -- Transmission -- Clinical features -- Pathogenesis -- Pathologic features -- Life cycle and differences between different species -- Trichomonas-related human and nonhuman species -- Diagnosis -- Classical diagnostic techniques versus advanced techniques -- Microscopy -- Culture -- Advanced techniques for the diagnosis of trichomoniasis -- Antibody-based technique -- Molecular methods -- New challenges in diagnostic/diagnostic marker -- Treatment -- Drugs: advancement in drug discovery -- Vaccine: advancement in vaccine discovery -- Drug resistance -- Advancement in drug resistance to encounter the new drug resistance development -- Urgency -- Efficacy, safety, and effectiveness -- Tinidazole -- Ornidazole -- Secnidazole -- Nimorazole -- Carnidazole -- Summary -- References -- 6 - Giardiasis -- Introduction -- Life cycle of Giardia duodenalis -- Species variation -- Diagnosis of giardiasis -- Classical versus advanced diagnostic techniques -- Inherent limitations in diagnostic methods -- Conventional microscopic methods.
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Immunological assays -- Detection of nucleic acid -- Treatment of giardiasis -- Clinically used drugs -- Drugs resistance -- Advancement in therapeutic and prophylactic agents -- Advancement in drug discovery -- Vaccine and the advancement of vaccine discovery -- Limitations and advances in vaccine development -- Vaccine candidates -- Peptide-based vaccine candidates for giardiasis -- The way forward -- References -- 7 - Balantidiasis -- Introduction -- Taxonomy -- Hosts -- Morphology -- Transmission -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis and clinical manifestations -- Life cycle and differences between species -- Diagnosis -- Classical diagnostic techniques versus advanced techniques -- New challenges in diagnostic/diagnostic marker -- Treatment -- Drugs -- References -- 8 - Protozoan diseases having less global burden -- Babesiosis -- Epidemiology -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Prevention and control -- Naegleriasis -- Epidemiology -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Prevention and control -- Acanthamoebiasis -- Epidemiology -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Cystoisosporiasis -- Epidemiology -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Blastocystosis -- Epidemiology -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Dientamoebiasis -- Epidemiology -- Life cycle -- Diagnosis and treatment -- Prevention and control -- References -- 9 - Summary of advancement in protozoan disease diagnosis and treatment -- Introduction -- Treatment of protozoan diseases -- Diagnosis of protozoan diseases -- Vaccines for protozoan diseases -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Bhatt, Tarun Kumar The Diagnosis and Treatment of Protozoan Diseases San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology,c2024 ISBN 9780443191619
Sprache:
Englisch
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