African trypanosomes and their VSGs -- Malaria: the real killer -- The HIV-AIDS vaccine and the disadvantage of natural selection: the yellow fever vaccine and the advantage of articial selection -- Lyme disease: a classic emerging disease -- The discovery of ivermectin: a "crapshoot", or not? -- "You came a long way to see a tree" -- Infectious disease and modern epidemiology -- The "unholy trinity" and the geohelminths: an intractable problem? -- Hookworm disease: insidious, stealthily treacherous -- The spadefoot toad and Pseudodiplorchis americanus: an amazing story of two very aquatic species in a very dry land -- The schistosomes: split-bodied flukes -- Dicrocoelium dendriticum and Halipegus occidualis: their life cycles and a genius at work -- Trichinosis and Trichinella spp. (all eight of them, or is it nine?) -- Phylogenetics: a contentious discipline -- Taxoplasma gondii, Sarococystis neurona, and Neospora caninum: the worst of the coccidians?
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Engaging introduction to the key discoveries that have shaped the field of parasitology.