Parasites on the web

Upcoming meetings

• Drugs against Parasitic Diseases. 2nd COST-B9/INCO-DC/TDR Congress on Antiprotozoal Chemotherapy. From 24 - 26 May, 1999, Montpellier, France. Local organisers Henri Vial and Jacques Perié
• Parasitic Helminths, From Genomes to Vaccines, II, Edinburgh July 8-11 1999

WWW-servers of parasitological interest:

• Societies:
  • American Society of Parasitology
  • Society of Protozoologists
  • Society of Nematologists
  • International Society for Evolutionary Protistology
• WHO
• CDC homepage
• CDC Morbidity and mortality Weekly Review
• Parasites and Parasitology Resources from the Ohio State University
• Malaria Foundation
• Pasteur Institute Paris
• Newsgroups with parasitological topics:
• Directory of Parasitologists
• E-mail discussion lists on tryps and Leishmania
• E-mail discussion lists on TDR topics
• parasitology newsgroups:
  • parasitology newsgroup
  • protists newsgroup
  • Schistosoma newsgroup
  • Caenorhabditis elegans newsgroup
  • tropical biology newsgroup
• Parasite-Genome-Projects:
  • The Leismania genome project
  • WHO Leishmania Genome Network Web site, at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge,
  • Parasite genomes
  • The T. cruzi Genome Project
• actual codon usage tables
• information about "expressed sequence tags" EST
• Internet Parasitology Lectures (from the University of Pennsylvania)
• pictures and images of parasites:
  • a collection of images of medically important parasites
  • pictures and images from the microweb-server

Article about WWW resources for parasitologists:

• Coppel, R.L.: Internet and the parasitologist: the what, where and why of the web. Parasitol. Today (1996), 12, 85-7.