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Advances in Parasitology

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Advances in Parasitology

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One - Measuring the Effect of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections on Cognitive Function in Children: Systematic Re ...

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF EVIDENCE

2.1 Study design and data collection

2.1.1 Key search terms

2.1.2 Review protocol and search strategy

3. RESULTS FROM OUR ANALYSIS

3.1 Literature search

3.2 Studies including children aged from 0 to 24months

3.3 Studies including children from 25 to 59months

3.4 Studies including school-aged children (aged 60months and above)

4. MEASURING THE EFFECT OF SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTH INFECTIONS ON DIFFERENT DOMAINS OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION OF CHILDREN

4.1 Main findings from studies including children aged under 59months

4.2 Main findings from studies including children aged 60months and above

4.3 Improving the design of studies to assess the role of soil-transmitted helminth infections on children's cognitive function

4.4 Study setting and baseline soil-transmitted helminth infection levels

4.5 Controlling for confounding

4.6 The duration of the intervention and the length of follow-ups

4.7 The choice of cognitive measurement tools is important

4.8 Investigation of early childhood infections

5. FUTURE REMARKS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Two - Hook, Line and Infection: A Guide to Culturing Parasites, Establishing Infections and Assessing Immune Respon ...

1. INTRODUCTION

2. STICKLEBACK HUSBANDRY

2.1 Ethics

2.2 Collection

2.3 Maintenance

2.4 Breeding sticklebacks in vivo and in vitro

2.5 Hatchery

3. COMMON STICKLEBACK PARASITE CULTURES

3.1 Argulus foliaceus

3.1.1 Introduction

3.1.2 Source, culture and infection

3.1.3 Immunology

3.2 Camallanus lacustris

3.2.1 Introduction

3.2.2 Source, culture and infection

3.2.3 Immunology

3.3 Diplostomum Species

3.3.1 Introduction

3.3.2 Source, culture and infection

3.3.3 Immunology

3.4 Glugea anomala

3.4.1 Introduction

3.4.2 Source, culture and infection

3.4.3 Immunology

3.5 Gyrodactylus Species

3.5.1 Introduction

3.5.2 Source, culture and infection

3.5.3 Immunology

3.6 Saprolegnia parasitica

3.6.1 Introduction

3.6.2 Source, culture and infection

3.6.3 Immunology

3.7 Schistocephalus solidus

3.7.1 Introduction

3.7.2 Source, culture and infection

3.7.3 Immunology

4. TREATING COMMON INFECTIONS

5. COINFECTING PARASITES

6. SUMMARY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Three - Advances in Spermatological Characters in the Digenea: Review and Proposal of Spermatozoa Models and Their ...

1. INTRODUCTION

2. ULTRASTRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SPERMATOZOA

2.1 Axoneme

2.2 Cortical microtubules

2.3 Cytoplasmic ornamented buttons

2.4 External ornamentation of the plasma membrane

2.5 Lateral expansion

2.6 Anterior electron-dense material

2.7 Spine-like bodies

2.8 Mitochondria and their number

2.9 Posterior spermatozoon character

3. SPERMATOLOGICAL REVIEW IN THE DIGENEA

3.1 General spermiogenesis process

3.2 The mature spermatozoon

3.3 Superfamily Brachylaimoidea

3.4 Superfamily Echinostomatoidea

3.5 Superfamily Gorgoderoidea

3.6 Superfamily Gymnophalloidea

3.7 Superfamily Haploporoidea

3.8 Superfamily Hemiuroidea

3.9 Superfamily Lepocreadioidea

3.10 Superfamily Microphalloidea

3.11 Superfamily Microscaphidioidea

3.12 Superfamily Monorchioidea

3.13 Superfamily Opecoeloidea

3.14 Superfamily Opisthorchioidea

3.15 Superfamily Paramphistomoidea

3.16 Superfamily Plagiorchioidea

3.17 Superfamily Pronocephaloidea

3.18 Superfamily Schistosomatoidea

4. DETERMINATION OF CHARACTERS OF PHYLOGENETIC INTEREST AND SPERMATOZOA MODELS

4.1 Characters of phylogenetic interest

4.2 Spermatological models in the Digenea

4.2.1 Type I

4.2.2 Type II

4.2.2.1 Taxa included

4.2.3 Type III

4.2.3.1 Taxa included

4.2.4 Type IV

4.2.4.1 Taxa included

4.2.5 Type V

4.2.5.1 Taxa included

5. PHYLOGENETIC INTEREST OF SPERMATOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS

6. CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Four - Life History, Systematics and Evolution of the Diplostomoidea Poirier, 1886: Progress, Promises and Challeng ...

1. INTRODUCTION

2. LIFE HISTORY AND BIOLOGY OF DIPLOSTOMOIDS

2.1 The miracidium

2.2 Parthenitae generations and the cercaria

2.3 The diplostomoid metacercaria

2.4 The mesocercaria, a unique innovation

2.5 The adult

2.6 Atypical transmission strategies

3. CURRENT SYSTEMATICS AND PHYLOGENETIC TESTS OF THE DIPLOSTOMOIDEA

4. USE OF MOLECULES TO PROSPECT FOR AND DELIMIT SPECIES

5. TAXONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF RECENT STUDIES

6. HOST–PARASITE INTERACTIONS

7. LINKING LIFE-CYCLE STAGES AND THEIR CHARACTERIZATION

8. CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Five - The Battle Against Flystrike – Past Research and New Prospects Through Genomics

1. INTRODUCTION

2. FLYSTRIKE, LUCILIA BIOLOGY AND CHALLENGES WITH TREATMENT AND CONTROL

3. CONTROL OF LUCILIA CUPRINA

3.1 Treatment with insecticides and resistance problems

3.2 Fly trapping

3.3 Shearing, crutching, dipping and jetting

3.4 Mulesing

3.4.1 Surgical mulesing

3.4.2 Nonsurgical mulesing

3.4.3 Welfare issues relating to mulesing

3.5 Genetic selection of sheep

3.6 Transgenic flies

3.7 Biological control

4. VACCINE RESEARCH

5. MOLECULAR STUDIES OF LUCILIA CUPRINA PRIOR TO A DRAFT GENOME

5.1 Molecular identification

5.2 Phylogenetics and population genetics

6. TRANSCRIPTOMIC STUDIES OF LUCILIA CUPRINA PRIOR TO A DRAFT GENOME

7. ESSENTIAL GENOMIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND MOLECULAR EXPLORATIONS OF LUCILIA CUPRINA

7.1 Details of the draft genome

7.2 Insecticide resistance genes

7.3 Developmental transcription

7.4 Fly biology and host interactions

7.5 Possible intervention targets

8. CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

Six - Trypanosoma congolense: Molecular Toolkit and Resources for Studying a Major Livestock Pathogen and Model Try ...

1. INTRODUCTION

2. LIFE CYCLE

2.1 Mammalian host

2.1.1 Bloodstream forms

2.1.2 Antigenic variation

2.2 Tsetse

2.2.1 Transmission

2.2.2 Life cycle stages

2.2.3 Sexual reproduction

2.2.4 Surface molecules

3. CULTIVATION

3.1 Bloodstream forms

3.2 Procyclics

3.3 Epimastigotes and metacyclics

4. MOLECULAR RESOURCES

4.1 Genome

4.2 Transcriptome

4.3 Proteome

5. MOLECULAR TOOLKIT

5.1 Transfection of trypanosomes

5.2 Nuts and bolts of transfection

5.2.1 Electroporation

5.2.2 DNA constructs

5.2.3 Selection of transfectants

6. FUTURE OUTLOOK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

REFERENCES

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