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This book focuses on the potentialities and problems of developing effective vaccines against bloodstream parasites of man and his livestock. The parasites dealt with are a diverse group: trypanosomes, plasmodia, theUerias, anaplasmas, and babesias. All have arthropods as vectors during a portion of their complex life cycles. Tsetse flies transmit salivarian trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness in man and trypanosomiasis in cattle; reduviid “kissing” bugs transmit Chagas’ disease; mosquitoes are the vectors of malarial parasites; and different species of ticks transmit East Coast fever (ECF), anaplasmosis, and babesiosis of cattle. These diseases are among the most devastating and economically costly of those of parasitic origin.
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Miller, L.H., Pino, J.A., McKelvey, J.J. (1977). Introduction. In: Miller, L.H., Pino, J.A., McKelvey, J.J. (eds) Immunity to Blood Parasites of Animals and Man. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 93. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8855-9_1
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