Table of Contents

1. Parasites of the Giant Panda: A Risk Factor in the Conservation of a Species Tao Wang, Yue Xie, Youle Zheng, Chengdong Wang, Desheng Li, Anson V. Koehler, and Robin B. Gasser 2. The Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Epidemiology of Coccidia of Passerine Birds Alex Knight, John G. Ewen, Patricia Brekke, and Anna W. Santure 3. Monogenean Parasite Cultures: Current Techniques and Recent Advances K.S. Hutson, A.K. Brazenor, D.B. Vaughan, and A. Trujillo-González 4. Molecular Epidemiology of Anisakis and Anisakiasis: An Ecological and Evolutionary Road Map  Simonetta Mattiucci, Paolo Cipriani, Arne Levsen, Michela Paoletti, and Giuseppe Nascetti 5. Evolution, Systematics, and Biogeography of the Triatominae, Vectors of Chagas Disease  Fernando Araujo Monteiro, Christiane Weirauch, Márcio Felix, Cristiano Lazoski, and Fernando Abad-Franch 6. Expanding the Vector Control Toolbox for Malaria Elimination: A Systematic Review of the Evidence  Yasmin A. Williams, Lucy S. Tusting, Sophia Hocini, Patricia M. Graves, Gerry F. Killeen, Immo Kleinschmidt, Fredros O. Okumu, Richard G.A. Feachem, Allison Tatarsky, and Roly D. Gosling

About the Author

Professor David Rollinson is a Merit Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he leads a research team in the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for schistosomiasis. He has had a long fascination with parasites and the diseases that they cause, this has involved him in many overseas projects especially in Africa. He is on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of parasitic diseases, the editor of Advances in Parasitology and a former President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. His research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, which combines detailed molecular studies in the laboratory with ongoing collaborative studies in endemic areas of disease, to explore the intriguing world of parasites in order to help control and eliminate parasitic diseases. Prof. Russell Stothard is Chair in Medical Parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK