Control of Human Parasitic Diseases /
guest editor, David H. Molyneux.
- 2006.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 662 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portrait.
- Advances in parasitology, v. 61 0065-308X ; .
- Advances in parasitology ; v. 61. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Control of human parasitic diseases: context and overview / Malaria chemotherapy / Insecticide-treated nets / Control of Chagas disease / Human African trypanosomiasis: epidemiology and control / Chemotherapy in the treatment and control of leishmaniasis -- Jorge Alvar, Simon Croft, Piero Olliaro -- Dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) eradication / Intervention for the control of soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the community / Control of onchocerciasis / Lynmphatic filariasis: treatment, control and elimination / Control of cystic echinococcosis/hydatidosis: 1863-2002 / Control of Taenia solium cysticercosis/taeniosis / Implementation of human schistosomiasis control: challenges and prospects / David H. Molyneux -- Peter Winstanley, Stephen Ward -- Jenny Hil, Jo Lines, Mark Rowland -- Yoichi Yamagata, Jun Nakagawa -- E.M. Fèvre, K. Picozzi, J. Jannin, S.C. Welburn, I. Maudlin -- Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, Donald R. Hopkins -- Marco Albonico, Antonio Montresor, D.W.T. Crompton, Lorenzo Savioli -- Boakye A. Boatin, Frank O. Richards -- Eric A. Ottesen -- P.S. Craig, E. Larrieu -- Arve Lee Willingham, Dirk Engels -- Alan Fenwick, David Rollinson, Vaughan Southgate.
This volumes reviews state-of-the-art methods and historic successes of disease control.