Giardia : A Model Organism - Lujan, Hugo D.; Svärd, Staffan; SpringerLink (Online service) (Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Preface and Introduction -- Section I: Taxonomy and Epidemiology of Giardia -- 1 Taxonomy of Giardia Species -- 2 Epidemiology of Giardiasis in Humans -- 3 Waterborne and Environmentally-Borne Giardiasis -- 4 Giardia in Pets and Farm Animals, and Their Zoonotic Potential -- Section II: Molecular Biology of Giardia -- 5 Genomics of Giardia -- 6 The Glycoproteins of Giardia -- 7 Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Phospholipids and Fatty Acids in Giardia lamblia -- 8 Giardia Metabolism -- Section III: Cellular Biology of Giardia -- 9 The Ultrastructure of Giardia During Growth and Differentiation -- 10 Cell Cycle Regulation and Cell Division in Giardia -- 11 The Giardia Mitosomes -- 12 Signaling Pathways in Giardia lamblia -- 13 Transcription and Recombination in Giardia -- 14 Intracellular Protein Trafficking -- 15 Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing and Translation in Giardia -- 16 Antigenic Variation in Giardia -- Section IV: Pathology, Treatment and Diagnostics of Giardia and the Host Immune Response -- 17 Interaction of Giardia with Host Cells -- 18 Primary Microtubule Structures in Giardia -- 19 Pathophysiological Processes and Clinical Manifestations of Giardiasis -- 20 Immunology of Giardiasis --  21 Vaccination Against Giardia -- 22 Diagnosis of Human Giardiasis -- Section V: Methods for Giardia Research -- 23 Methods for Giardia Culture, Cryopreservation, Encystation, and Excystation In Vitro -- 24 Synchronization of Giardia -- 25 Methods for Giardia Transfection and Gene Expression -- 26 Biological Resource Centers for Giardia Research.
Keywords: Parasitology; Microbiology; Animal models in research; Animal genetics; Parasitology; Eukaryotic Microbiology; Animal Models; Animal Genetics and Genomics