Biodiversity of Southeast Asian Parasites and Vectors Causing Human Disease
暫譯: 東南亞寄生蟲與媒介生物的生物多樣性及其對人類疾病的影響

這本主題合集專注於東南亞的主要寄生蟲及其媒介。最新的論文邀請讀者探索寄生蟲和媒介的形態學、基因多樣性，以及與人類土地使用和氣候變化相關的動態寄生蟲群落。作者闡明了傳播途徑，並探討了蜱傳疾病、腸道原生動物、絛蟲、線蟲以及多樣的隱秘吸蟲物種。特別關注在變化環境中的蚊子媒介以及脊椎動物宿主的動態生物多樣性，包括哺乳動物、鳥類和魚類。

這些豐富插圖的章節還包括了新的診斷方法、治療和預防措施，以保護人類和動物免受熱帶寄生蟲感染。不僅寄生蟲學家和熱帶醫學專家，公共衛生官員和旅行者也會發現這本書非常有價值。

Weerachai Saijuntha is Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the Walai Rukhavej Botanical Research Institute, Mahasarakham University in Thailand. His research interests include the molecular systematics and population genetics of terrestrial animals, parasites, and vectors in Southeast Asia. The main focus of research is on pathogenic parasites and their snail intermediate hosts. He has been active in molecular systematics and genetic variation research of medially important trematodes and bithyniid snails for 12 years and has published over 60 peer reviewed original research articles, refereed reviews, and specialist book chapters. He has received a number of national and international awards as a result of his research which is continuously improving our understanding of parasites and the diseases they transmit in Southeast Asia and globally.
Professor Heinz Mehlhorn studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn (Germany). He was chairman of the parasitological institutes in Düsseldorf and Bochum. As a former president of the World Society of Protozoology and long-standing member of the steering committee of the World Society of Parasitologists he runs ongoing lectures in parasitology in several countries and teaches courses for medical students in Düsseldorf. He has published a variety of specialist books on parasitological problems in German, French, English and Spanish. He holds the patents on 12 antiparasitic drugs, which are the basis of products sold by the university spin-off company Alpha-Biocare GmbH (Neuss, Germany), which produces medications, repellents and wound care products for humans and animals.

特雷佛·佩特尼博士目前在卡爾斯魯厄的國立自然歷史博物館工作，同時擔任泰國孔敬大學和馬哈沙拉堪大學的訪問教授。他的主要研究興趣涉及宿主-蜱-病原體系統的複雜動態，以及在變化環境下宿主-寄生蟲系統的變化，包括其生物多樣性。他已發表超過230篇經過同行評審的論文，並且目前是《國際寄生蟲學期刊》中蜱及蜱傳疾病的專家編輯。