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[email protected] Parasitology, Edited by Mohammad Manjur Shah p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0149-9 Contents Preface VII Part 1 Medical Parasitology 1 Chapter 1 Tools for Trans-Splicing Drug Interference Evaluation in Kinetoplastid 3 Regina Maria Barretto Cicarelli, Lis Velosa Arnosti, Caroline Cunha Trevelin and Marco Túlio Alves da Silva Chapter 2 Innovation of the Parasitic Cycle of Coccidioides spp. 29 Bertha Muñoz-Hernández, Ma. De los Angeles Martínez- Rivera, Gabriel Palma-Cortés and Ma. Eugenia Manjarrez Chapter 3 Biological Control of Parasites Khodadad Pirali-Kheirabadi Chapter 4 Genotyping of Giardia intestinalis Isolates from Dogs by Analysis of gdh, tpi, and bg Genes 67 Enedina Jiménez-Cardoso, Leticia Eligio-García, Adrian Cortés-Campos and Apolinar Cano-Estrada Chapter 5 Electrocardiography as a Diagnostic Method for Chagas Disease in Patients and Experimental Models 77 Patricia Paglini-Oliva, Silvina M. Lo Presti and H. Walter Rivarola Part 2 53 Parasite Ecology, Evolution, Morphology, Epidemiology and Biodiversiy 93 Chapter 6 Cestode Development Research in China: A Review 95 Gonghuang Cheng Chapter 7 Soft Ticks as Pathogen Vectors: Distribution, Surveillance and Control 125 Raúl Manzano-Román, Verónica Díaz-Martín, José de la Fuente and Ricardo Pérez-Sánchez Chapter 8 Parasitic Nematodes of some Insects from Manipur, India 163 M. Manjur Shah, N. Mohilal, M. Pramodini and L.Bina Preface Parasitology can be defined as a discipline that deals with the study of parasites and their interactions with their hosts. Parasites may live in (as an intracellular/ intercellular parasite) or on the host (as an ectoparasite) without causing any discomfort or disease. Such parasites may be regarded as non