Protozoological Abstracts is an online bibliographic and abstracts database of internationally published research on parasitic protozoa.

Selected from the applied life sciences database CAB Abstracts, Protozoological Abstracts provides the latest information on all aspects of parasitic protozoa, including molecular genetics, biochemistry, physiology, morphology, taxonomy, life cycles, immunology, and the pathology, transmission, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and control of diseases caused by trypanosomes, Leishmania, Toxoplasma, amoebae, microsporidia, malaria parasites and the many other protists that are parasitic in man and domestic and wild animals.

Each week the online version delivers all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books about parasitic protozoa.

Created and indexed by subject specialists, Protozoological Abstracts provides access to these abstracts by way of comprehensive indexing and classification codes.

It includes a fully searchable backfile to 1973 of over 200,000 abstracts with over 8000 new records added each year.

Protozoological Abstracts is also available in print as a monthly journal with author, subject and serials cited indexes

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Clinical aspects of protozoal infections

Case reports, and all aspects of pathology including

• • – haematology

  – histopathology

• • – pathogenicity

  – pathogenesis

Diagnostic techniques

• – application of tried and tested techniques
• – development and evaluation of new diagnostic techniques
• – DNA fingerprinting
• – the development of rapid techniques for use in the field and for mass surveys

Epidemiology and transmission

All aspects of

• – epidemiological surveys
• – geographical distribution
• • • • – intermediate hosts and vectors

      – molecular epidemiology

    – new geographical and host records

• • – parasite prevalence and incidence
• – zoonoses

Host-parasite relationships and cell invasion

The complex relationships between the parasite and its host are covered, including

• • – cytoadherence and invasion processes
  • • – effects on host behaviour and sexual selection

    – host specificity

  – life cycles

• – the formation and function of the parasitophorous vacuole

Immunobiology and immunodiagnosis

Covers all aspects of

• • • – antibodies

    – antigenic variation

  – antigens

• – development and use of immunodiagnostic tests
• – immune response
• – immune evasion
• – immunopathology and immunosuppression
• – vaccine development

Malariology

All the latest research on malaria is covered, including

• – cerebral malaria and other complications
• • – diagnostic techniques
  • – disease transmission
  • – drug therapy and vaccine development
  • – epidemiology and imported infections

  – immunobiology and disease resistance

• – malaria vectors
• • – parasite biology and molecular genetics
  • – pathogenesis

  – vector control

 

Medical and veterinary parasitology

All protozoal infections affecting man and domestic animals are covered, including

• – diagnosis
• – disease prevention and control
• • • – public health aspects

    – symptomatology

  – zoonotic infections

Molecular biology, cytochemistry and physiology

All aspects of genetics and molecular genetics, including

• • – biochemistry and physiology
  • – cell metabolism

  – genetic engineering

• – gene expression and gene regulation
• • – gene function

  – genome projects

• – nucleotide and amino acid sequences

Morphology and ultrastructure

• • – cell structure

  – general morphology

• – the fine structure of cell organelles as determined by light, transmission and scanning electron microscopy

Protozoal diseases of fishes and wild animals

Parasitological surveys of wild fauna, including

• • • • – Caged and farmed fish and shellfish, zoo animals and reservoir hosts of zoonotic diseases are also covered

      – birds and mammals

    – freshwater and marine fishes

  – invertebrates

• – reptiles and amphibia

Taxonomy and phylogeny

• – evolution and taxonomic relationships
• – descriptions of new taxa
• – redescriptions of existing taxa, keys, revisions and synonymies

Treatment and control

Covers all aspects of control including

• – biological control
• • • – drug resistance

    – drug therapy

  – environmental and chemical control

• • – national and international control programmes

  – prophylaxis

• – pharmacokinetics and drug toxicity
• – in vitro and clinical trials of new drugs
• – medicinal plants
• • – studies of antiprotozoal agents including their mode of action

  – vaccine development

• – vector control

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