Advances in Parasitology

Cover illustration: The mechanisms by which severe host immuno-pathology develops and the immunological factors that initiate this process during schistosomiasis, reviewed by Hoffmann, Wynn, and Dunne. The authors draw on information gleamed from various animal models and human epidemiological investigations to describe how distinct types of severe egg-induced pathology evolve during infection.

About the Author

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.