Record Details

Biochemistry of a Novel Ascorbate Peroxidase from Leishmania major

EPrints@IICB

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Biochemistry of a Novel Ascorbate Peroxidase from Leishmania major
 
Creator Dolai, Subhankar
 
Subject Structural Biology & Bioinformatics
 
Description Parasites are organisms that live on other living organisms (hosts), such as animals and plants. Infections of humans caused by parasites are numerous and range from relatively innocuous to fatal. Despite advances in modern medicine parasitic diseases still constitute major human health problems throughout the world and thus have made parasite research extremely challenging. Medical parasitology traditionally has included the study of three
major groups of pathogens: parasitic protozoa, parasitic helminths (worms), and those of arthropods. Protozoan parasites are unicellular organisms that cause a wide variety of diseases like malaria, trypanosomiasis, toxoplasmosis and leishmaniasis. Since the parasites
generally reside within the blood or internal organs of the host, they have logistical problems in terms of infecting a new host. To overcome this, vector transmission is the strategy used by protozoan parasites. This strategy involves a hematophogous (i.e., blood feeding) arthropod serving as an intermediary between successive vertebrate hosts. Table 1 lists several human diseases that are caused by parasitic protozoa and the corresponding arthropod vectors that transmit them.
 
Date 2009
 
Type Thesis
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/933/1/Subhankar_Thesis_Final.pdf
Dolai, Subhankar (2009) Biochemistry of a Novel Ascorbate Peroxidase from Leishmania major. PhD thesis, Jadavpur University.
 
Relation http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/933/