Trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis with special reference to Chagas' disease

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Symposium on Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Caracas)
Formato: Procedimiento de la Conferencia Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Amsterdam, New York : Associated Scientific Publishers, ©1974
Colección:(Ciba Foundation symposium ; 20)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction.
  • Leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis: the causative organisms compared and contrasted.
  • Epidemiology of African sleeping sickness.
  • Epidemiology, modes of transmission and reservoir hosts of chagas disease.
  • Eoidemilogy, modes of transmission and reservoir hosts of chagas' disease.
  • Epidemilogy of leshmaniasis : some reflections of causation.
  • The African scene : mechanisms of pathogenesis in trypanosomiasis.
  • Pathogenic mechanisms in Chagas' cardiomyopathy.
  • Pathogenesis of Chagas' disease.
  • Cutaneous leihmaniasis: the clinical and immunopathological spectrum in South America.
  • The ultrastructure of pathogenic flagellates.
  • Immunity and antigenic variation: clinical observations suggestive of immune phenomena in trypanososmiasis.
  • Nutrition and biosynthetic capabilities of flagellates: problems of in vitro cultivation and differentiation.
  • Intermediary metabolism of pathogenic flagellates.
  • The chemotherapy of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis: towards a more rational approach.
  • Drug resistance in trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis