Advances in Parasitology

Advances in Parasitology, Volume 111, the latest release in this ongoing series, includes medical studies of parasites of major influence, along with reviews of more traditional areas, such as zoology, taxonomy and life history. Chapters in this update include Taking the strain out of onchocerciasis: a reanalysis of blindness and transmission data does not support the existence of a savanna blinding strain of onchocerciasis in West Africa, Enterocytozoon bieneusi of animals, Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis, Genomic analysis reveals predominant clonality and progressive evolution at all evolutionary scales in eukaryotic pathogens, HTLV-I and Strongyloides: the worm lurking beneath, and more.

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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

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1. Taking the strain out of onchocerciasis: a reanalysis of blindness and transmission data does not support the existence of a savanna blinding strain of onchocerciasis in West Africa
   María-Gloria Basáñez, Robert Cheke, Kirsty Little, Stephen Young and Martin Walker
   2. Enterocytozoon bieneusi of animals
   Anson V. Koehler, Robin Gasser, Zhang Yan and Tao Wang
   3. Taenia solium taeniasis/cysticercosis
   María-Gloria Basáñez
   4. Genomic analysis reveals predominant clonality and progressive evolution at all evolutionary scales in eukaryotic pathogens
   Michel Tibayrenc
   5. HTLV-I and Strongyloides: the worm lurking beneath
   Don McManus, Catherine Amy Gordon, Jennifer M. Shield, Richard Bradbury, Stephen Muhi, Wendy Page, Jenni Judd, Rogan Lee, Beverley-Ann Biggs, Kirstin Ross, Johanna Kurcheid and Darren Gray
   6. Advances in the Discovery and Development of Anthelmintics by Harnessing Natural Product Scaffolds
   Robin Gasser