Parasitic diseases remain a major health problem throughout the
world, for both humans and animals. For many of us, our
technologically advanced lifestyle has decreased the prevalence and
transmission of parasitic diseases, but for the majority of the
world's population, they are ever present in homes, domestic
animals, food, or the environment. The study of parasites and
parasitic disease has a long and distinguished history. In some
cases, it has been driven by the great importance of the presence
of the parasite to the community, for example, those that affect
our livestock. In other cases, it is clear that applied research
has suffered for lack of funding because the parasite affects
people with few resources, such as the rural poor in resource-poor
countries. These instances include the so-called "neglected
diseases," as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Parasites have complicated life cycles, and a thorough
understanding of the unique characteristics of a particular
parasite species is vital in attempts to avoid, prevent, or cure
infection or to alleviate symptoms. Of course, the biological
characteristics that each parasite has developed to aid survival
and transmission, to avoid destruction by the immune system, and to
adapt to a changing environment are of lasting fascination to basic
biologists as well. The elegance of these biological systems has
ensured that the study of protozoan and metazoan parasites also
remains an active field of research in countries where the diseases
are not a threat to the population.
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