Microsporidia

Microsporidia: Pathogens of Opportunity provides a
systematic overview of the biology of microsporidia. Written
by leading experts in the field, the book combines background and
basic information on microsporidia with descriptive methods and
resources for working with the pathogen.

Newly revised and updated for its second edition, Microsporidia
will continue to be the standard text reference for these
pathogenic protists, and is an indispensable research resource for
biologists,

physicians and parasitologists.

This new edition of this publication provides systematic reviews
of the biology of this pathogen by leading experts in the field,
and will be combined with descriptions of the methods and resources
for working with this pathogen.

• Provides a comprehensive summary of literature on
  microsporidia and microsporidiosis

• The long-awaited update to the standard microsporidia
  reference text The Microsporidia and
  Microsporidiosis

• Written by an international team of authors representing
  each of the main research groups working on microsporidia

• Chapters provide comprehensive overviews of general
  methodology as well as special techniques related to these
  organisms

Autorentext

Louis M. Weiss, M.D., M.P.H. is an attending physician at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and at
the Bronx Municipal Hospital, where he also serves as a consulting
physician in parasitology and tropical medicine. Dr. Weiss is a
peer reviewer for numerous journals including the American
Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Parasitology
Research, and Clinical Infectious Disease. The author of
over 200 peer-reviewed articles, Dr. Weiss has contributed chapters
and monographs to dozens of books in the field, andis a co-editor
of five previous books on parasitology and infectious disease.

James J. Becnel, Ph.D, is Lead Scientist and Research
Entomologist with the USDA-ARS in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Becnel
serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Invertebrate
Pathology and Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, and
has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on parasitology and
entomology related topics.

Zusammenfassung

Microsporidia: Pathogens of Opportunity provides a systematic overview of the biology of microsporidia. Written by leading experts in the field, the book combines background and basic information on microsporidia with descriptive methods and resources for working with the pathogen.

Newly revised and updated for its second edition, Microsporidia will continue to be the standard text reference for these pathogenic protists, and is an indispensable research resource for biologists,
physicians and parasitologists.

This new edition of this publication provides systematic reviews of the biology of this pathogen by leading experts in the field, and will be combined with descriptions of the methods and resources for working with this pathogen.

• Provides a comprehensive summary of literature on microsporidia and microsporidiosis

• The long-awaited update to the standard microsporidia reference text The Microsporidia and Microsporidiosis

• Written by an international team of authors representing each of the main research groups working on microsporidia

• Chapters provide comprehensive overviews of general methodology as well as special techniques related to these organisms

Inhalt

Contributors xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

1. Structure of Microsporidia 1
   Jií Vávra and J. I. Ronny Larsson

2. Developmental Morphology and Life Cycles of the Microsporidia 71
   Ann Cali and Peter M. Takvorian

3. Epidemiology of Microsporidia in Human Infections 135
   Ronald Fayer and Monica Santin-Duran

4. Epizootiology of Microsporidiosis in Invertebrate Hosts 165
   Leellen F. Solter

5. Phylogenetic Place of Microsporidia in the Tree of Eukaryotes 195
   Patrick J. Keeling

6. Phylogeny of the Microsporidia 203
   Charles R. Vossbrinck, Bettina A. Debrunner-Vossbrinck and Louis M. Weiss

7. Microsporidian Genome Structure and Function 221
   Patrick J. Keeling, Naomi M. Fast and Nicolas Corradi

8. Sex and the Microsporidia 231
   Soo Chan Lee, Joseph Heitman and Joseph E. Ironside

9. Microsporidian Biochemistry and Physiology 245
   Bryony A. P. Williams, Viacheslav V. Dolgikh and Yuliya Y. Sokolova

10. The Microsporidian Polar Tube and Spore Wall 261
    Louis M. Weiss, Frédéric Delbac, J. Russell Hayman, Guoqing Pan, Xiaoqun Dang and Zeyang Zhou

11. The Immunology of Microsporidiosis in Mammals 307
    Elizabeth S. Didier and Imtiaz A. Khan

12. Mammalian Animal Models of Human Microsporidiosis 327
    Elizabeth S. Didier

13. Microsporidia Infections in Caenorhabditis elegans and Other Nematodes 341
    Malina A. Bakowski, Robert J. Luallen and Emily R. Troemel

14. The Zebrafish as a Model for Microsporidiosis 357
    Justin L. Sanders and Michael L. Kent

15. Clinical Syndromes Associated with Microsporidiosis 371
    Louis M. Weiss

16. Ocular Microsporidiosis 403
    Savitri Sharma, Praveen K. Balne and Sujata Das

17. Laboratory Diagnosis of Microsporidia 421
    Kaya Ghosh, David Schwartz and Louis M. Weiss

18. Culture and Propagation of Microsporidia 457
    Robert Molestina, James J. Becnel and Louis M. Weiss

19. Microsporidia in Higher Vertebrates 469
    Karen F. Snowden

20. Microsporidia in Fish 493
    Michael L. Kent, Ross W. Shaw and Justin L. Sanders

21. Microsporidia in Insects 521
    James J. Becnel and Theodore G. Andreadis

22. Microsporidia, Honeybees, and Colony Collapse Disorder 571
    Ingemar Fries

23. Microsporidia in Aquatic Invertebrates 579
    Grant D. Stentiford and Alison M. Dunn

24. The Primitive Microsporidia 605
    J. I. Ronny Larsson

25. Microsporidia Biological Control Agents and Pathogens of Beneficial Insects 635
    Susan Bjørnson and David Oi

Appendix A. Checklist of Available Generic Names for Microsporidia with Type Species and Type Hosts 671
James J. Becnel, Peter M. Takvorian and Ann Cali

Appendix B. MicrosporidiaDB: the Functional Genomic Resource for Microsporidia 687
Omar S. Harb (on behalf of the EuPathDB group)

Index 695