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Title: Microsporidia: pathogens of opportunity

Author
item Becnel, James
item WEISS, LOUIS - Albert Einstein College Of Medicine

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/7/2014
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Kudo published the first comprehensive treatise on the microsporidia “A Biologic and Taxonomic Study of the Microsporidia” in 1924 which was a critical review and systematic treatment of all literature on the microsporidia at the time. It would be more than 50 years before another treatise would be produced, “Biology of Microsporidia” in 1976 and Systematics of the Microsporidia” in 1977 by Vavra and Sprague. This would remain the “go to” authority on the microsporidia until 1999 when “The Microsporidia and Microsporidiosis” was published containing chapters on microsporidia in vertebrate and invertebrate hosts and the first comprehensive review of the growing field of molecular biology and phylogeny of the microsporidia. With the field rapidly advancing in many aspects of basic and molecular biology of the microsporidia it was apparent that a revision and expansion of the previous volume was needed. This effort has resulted in the Microsporidia : Pathogens of Opportunity L.M. Weiss and J., J. Becnel (Eds.) John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK with 25 chapters complied by experts including evolutionary and molecular biologists, veterinarians, entomologist, ichthyologist and physicians who study microsporidia. This is intended as a resource for those students and young researchers with an interest in the study of microsporidia as well as expanding the knowledge base of microsporidiologist from different disciplines within the field. An overview of the various chapters will be presented and topics of current relevance highlighted.