Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The Impact of Giardia on Science and Society -- 2 Cryptosporidium in Cattle: From Observing to Understanding -- TAXONOMY, NOMENCLATURE AND EVOLUTION -- 3 Names Do Matter -- 4 Centenary of the Genus Cryptosporidium: From Morphological to Molecular Species Identification -- MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TYPING -- 5 Molecular Epidemiology of Human Cryptosporidiosis in Developing Countries -- 6 Molecular Epidemiology and Typing of Non-human Isolates of Cryptosporidium -- 7 Insights Into the Molecular Detection of Giardia duodenalis: Implications for Epidemiology -- ZOONOTIC, HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH ISSUES -- 8 Wildlife with Giardia: Villain, or Victim and Vector? -- 9 The Role of Livestock in the Foodborne Transmission of Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium spp. to Humans -- 10 The Risk of Zoonotic Genotypes of Cryptosporidium spp. in Watersheds -- CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY -- 11 Clinical Presentation in Cryptosporidium-infected Patients -- 12 Molecular Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium and Giardia Infections -- ADVANCES IN DIAGNOSIS -- 13 Advances in Diagnosis: is Microscopy Still the Benchmark? -- TREATMENT OF DRINKING WATER -- 14 Control of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Surface Water by Disinfection -- 15 Towards Methods for Detecting UV-induced Damage in Individual Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis Oocysts by Immunofluorescence Microscopy -- CONTROL IN WATER -- 16 Effect of Environmental and Conventional Water Treatment Processes on Waterborne Cryptosporidium Oocysts -- 17 Methods for Genotyping and Subgenotyping Cryptosporidium spp. Oocysts Isolated During Water and Food Monitoring -- 18 Intervention in Waterborne Disease -- OTHER WATERBORNE PROTOZOA -- 19 Occurrence and Control of Naegleria fowleri in Drinking Water Wells.

20 Environmental Factors Influencing the Survival of Cyclospora cayetanensis -- BASIC BIOLOGY -- 21 Recent Advances in the Developmental Biology and Life Cycle of Cryptosporidium -- 22 Basic Biology of Giardia lamblia: Further Studies on Median Body and Funis -- 23 Giardia intestinalis: a Microaerophilic Parasite with Mitochondrial Ancestry -- METABOLOMICS AND TRANSCRIPTOME -- 24 Cytoskeleton-based Lipid Transport in a Parasitic Protozoan, Giardia lamblia -- 25 Signalling During Giardia Differentiation -- GENOMICS -- 26 Preliminary Analysis of the Cryptosporidium muris Genome -- PROTEOMICS -- 27 Proteomic Analyses in Giardia -- 28 Proteomic and Genomic Approaches to Understanding the 'Power Plant' of Cryptosporidium -- BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- 29 Energy Metabolism and Carbon Flow in Cryptosporidium parvum -- 30 The Surface Protein Repertoires of Cryptosporidium spp. and Other Apicomplexans -- 31 Giardan: Structure, Synthesis, Regulation and Inhibition -- CELL BIOLOGY AND SIGNALLING -- 32 Protein Kinase C in Giardia duodenalis: a Family Affair -- 33 Secretory Granule Biogenesis and the Organization of Membrane Compartments via SNARE Proteins in Giardia lamblia -- 34 Molecular Mechanisms of Cryptosporidium-induced Host Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics -- PATHOGENESIS AND HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP -- 35 Pathogenic Mechanisms in Giardiasis and Cryptosporidiosis -- 36 Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) in Immunological Control of Cryptosporidial Infection -- 37 Immune Response to Giardia Infection: Lessons from Animal Models -- DRUG TREATMENT AND NOVEL DRUG TARGETS -- 38 Drug Treatment and Novel Drug Targets Against Giardia and Cryptosporidium -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.