Chagas Disease

Louis M. Weiss, MD, MPH is Professor of Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Pathology (Division of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine) of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Dr. Weiss received his M.D. and M.P.H degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1982. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following this fellowship, he joined the faculty at Einstein where he is currently a Professor of Pathology and Medicine. His laboratory group has an active research program on parasitic diseases with a research focus on Toxoplasma gondii, the Microsporidia and Trypanosoma cruzi. Dr. Weiss is the author of over 200 publications and the editor of 3 books on parasitology. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the Co-Director of the Einstein Global Health Center.

"One is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing." --PARASITOLOGY"The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers." --ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY

• 1Epidemiology,Control Measures & Population Biologylouis Kirchhoff2Acute and Congenital Chagas DiseasesCaryn Bern5Cell Based Therapy in Chagas DiseaseCampos de Carvalho6Therapy Targeting Trypanosoma cruzi sterol 14 alpha-demethylaseGalina Lepsheva, Fernando Villata & Micheal Waterman7Experimental ChemotherapyFederick bruckner8Vaccines for Chagas DiseasesNisha Garg9Population Genetics of Chagas DiseaseBlangero10Triatomine BiologySteve Klotz13Animal Models and ImagingHerbert Tanowitz & Linda Jelicks14The Genome and its ImplicationsSantuza Teixeira15Genetic Techniques in Trypanosoma cruziJohn Kelly, Martin Taylor & Huan Huang16Nuclear StructureSergio Scehnkman17Stage DifferentiationSamuel Goldenberg18AcidocalcisomeRoberto Delcampo19Signaling Pathways in Trypanosoma cruziHuan Huang20Ecosanoids in Trypanosoma cruzi infectionAnthony Ashton, Fabiana Machado & herbert tanowitz22Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi on its Host Cells and InvasionBabara Burleigh23Gap Junctions and Trypanosoma cruziDavid Spray24Vasculopathy of Trypanosoma cruzi infectionHerbert Tanowitz21Bradykinin& Endothelin and VasculopathyScharfstein & marcus Rossi25AutoimmunityEdecio Cunha-Neto26Oxidative stress and Chagas diseaseNisha Garg27Inflammation in Chagas diseaseMauro Teixeira28Parasite Derived Neurotrophic FactorsMercio Pereira-Perrin29Adipose tissue, Diabetes and Chagas DiseaseHerbert Tanowitz, FNU Nagayothi & Phillip Scherer30Epilogue:The Next 100 YearsHerbert Tanowitz, Louis Weiss & Louis Kirchhoff