Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 - Epidemiological patterns and consequences -- 1. Distributions and predisposition / Celia Holland and Jaap Boes -- 2. Control strategies / Lorenzo Savioli, Antonio Montresor and Marco Albonico -- Section 2 - The cost and the damage done -- 3. Pathophysiology of intestinal nematodes / Lani S. Stephenson -- 4. Intestinal nematodes and cognitive development / Jane Kvalsvig -- 5. The economics of worm control / Helen Guyatt -- Section 3 - Immunology - mice, pigs and people -- 6. Immune responses in humans : Ascaris / Philip J. Cooper -- 7. Immunity and immune responses to Ascaris suum in pigs / Gregers Jungersen -- 8. Immune responses in humans : Trichuris / Helen Faulkner and Janette E. Bradley -- 9. The immunobiology of hookworm infection / David I. Pritchard, Rupert J. Quinnell, Peter J. Hotez, J.M. Hawdon and Alan Brown 143 -- Section 4 - Genetics - mice, worms and people -- 10. Human host susceptibility to intestinal worm infections / Sarah Williams-Blangero and John Blangero -- 11. Population genetics of intestinal nematodes / Helen Roberts -- 12. Parasite strain diversity and host immune responses / Derek Wakelin and Janette E. Bradley -- 13. The value of mutation scanning approaches for detecting genetic variation : implications for studying intestinal nematodes of humans / Robin B. Gasser, Zhu and Neil B. Cilton -- 14. Opportunities and prospects for investigating developmentally gulated and sex-specigenesndheir expression intestinal nematodes of humans / Susan E. Newton, Peter R. Boag, and Robin B. Gasser -- Section 5 - Interaction between geohelminth infections and other diseases -- 15. Schistosomiasis and reduced risk of atopic diseases: new insights and possible mechanisms / Anita H. J. van den Biggelaar and Maria Yazdanbakhsh -- 16. Geohelminths, HIV/AIDS, and TB / Gadi Borkow and Zvi Bentwich.