Author: George Robert Coatney
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Category : Malaria
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Loretta A Cormier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315417073
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Malaria is one of the oldest recorded diseases in human history, and its 10,000-year relationship to primates can teach us why it will be one of the most serious threats to humanity in the 21st century. In this pathbreaking book Loretta Cormier integrates a wide range of data from molecular biology, ethnoprimatology, epidemiology, ecology, anthropology, and other fields to reveal the intimate relationships between culture and environment that shape the trajectory of a parasite. She argues against the entrenched distinction between human and non-human malarias, using ethnoprimatology to develop a new understanding of cross-species exchange. She also shows how current human-environment interactions, including deforestation and development, create the potential for new forms of malaria to threaten human populations. This book is a model of interdisciplinary integration that will be essential reading in fields from anthropology and biology to public health.

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Author: George Robert Coatney
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Category : Malaria
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Category : Malaria
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: Peter George Contacos
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Category : Malaria
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Theodore Cedric Ruch
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Category : Malaria
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Category : Plasmodium
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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Pages : 235

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Author: Avivah Zuckerman
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Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Each primate plasmodium, simian and human, contains a series of protein components, some of which are precipitinogens. Such plasmodia, like the fowl- and rodent-plasmodia, are capable of being analysed by methods of diffusion in gel and by disc electrophoresis. Harvesting procedures leading to such analysis should be rigidly standardized in order to permit comparison of results. Lyophilized harvests should be prepared in vacuo. Host cell contaminants require to be identified in all such analytical procedures, and have not yet been fully identified. Analysis of the human plasmodia is greatly hampered by the fact that few teams are available for collecting antigen in the field, and that no other source of a continuing and relatively abundant supply of hyman plasmodia is yet available. Aotus monkeys may conceivably fill this gap if breeding colonies were to be established. If such analysis is to be carried out at this time, it is therefore recommended that field teams capable of harvesting plasmodia by a standardized procedure be invited to do so, in order to make a continuing supply of antigen available. (Author).