Presidential address: Parasites on a shrinking planet

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1253-1263

  Conn, David Bruce ^a,b  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; PESTICIDE;

EARTH; ECONOMIC HISTORY; FLEDGING; PARASITE; PLANET; POLITICAL HISTORY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANOPHELES; AQUACULTURE; CESTODE; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFORMATION CENTER; MALARIA; MEASLES; MOSQUITO; MUMPS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PANDEMIC; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PLAGUE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; POLITICS; RUBELLA; SCIENCE; SMALLPOX; SOCIETY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TAENIA SAGINATA; TECHNOLOGY; TREMATODE; TROPICAL DISEASE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VIRUS INFECTION; ZOOLOGY; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARASITIC DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES; PARASITOLOGY; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749089553     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2341.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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