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Hotez, Peter Jay was born on May 5, 1958 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Edward Joseph and Jean (Goldberg) Hotez.
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Parasitic Diseases
(Worldwide, the numbers of people suffering and dying from...)
Worldwide, the numbers of people suffering and dying from parasitic diseases are overwhelming, with more than 100 million cases and 1 million deaths each year from malaria alone. Despite the magnitude of the problem and the importance of the parasites that cause opportunistic infections among persons with HIV/AIDS, medical schools in the United States, Canada, and other developed countries consistently reduce the amount of time spent on parasitic diseases in the curricu lum. As a result most medical students receive limited information about these diseases, and are inadequately prepared to diagnose or treat them as physicians. This problem is too large to be resolved within the time available for parasitology in the medical school curriculum; at most, students can be acquainted with the salient features of the medically important parasites. Likewise, the traditional isolation of parasitology from the rest of the curriculum (consistent with its exclu sion from most microbiology texts) is another unresolved problem. In my opinion, this is why most physicians are unable to think about the differential diagnosis of parasitic diseases in the same way that they routinely balance the probabilities of malignancy, cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary disease vs other infectious diseases. To resolve these problems, relevant paradigms from parasitology must be used in the teaching of cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and immu nology.
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Parasitic Diseases, Fourth Edition
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Parasitic Diseases 4th ed. is intended as a textbook for 2nd yr. medical students. It is fully illustrated in color and contains over 1,700 references to the original literature. Chapters deal with all major eukaryotes that cause disease in humans. In addition, three chapters deal with anti-parasitic drugs, medical ecology, and travel medicine in the tropics. It has become the standard text on the subject at most medical schools throughout the USA.
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Parasitic Diseases 6th Edition
(Remarkable achievements in parasitic disease research, bo...)
Remarkable achievements in parasitic disease research, both basic and translational, have occurred over the last ten years, and we have incorporated the majority of these into the 6th edition of Parasitic Diseases. We have added over 1,000 new references to document these advances. Innovative work in the laboratory has provided the clinician/research scientist with a much clearer understanding of the mechanisms of pathogenesis. The number of recently discovered interleukins and their cellular networks has completely re-ordered our comprehension of how parasites and our defense system works to produce protection against infection/reinfection, or in some cases, how it becomes subverted by the offending pathogen to enable it to endure inside us for long periods of time. A plethora of molecular-based diagnostic tests have found their way into the routine of the parasitology diagnostic laboratory, improving the ease at which the offending pathogen can be rapidly identifed. Newer drugs, many with less harmful side-effects than the ones they replaced, have come on the market that make controlling parasite populations at the community level possible without the risk of harming the very ones we wish to help.
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Peter Jay Hotez
Edit Profileeducator Infectious medicine physician
Peter Jay Hotez, Infectious medicine physician, educator. Named honorary professor Chinese Academy Preventive Medicine, 1997. Member American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Society Parasitologists, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (advisory board journal, Young Investigator award 1993), Society Pediatric Research.
Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, Yale University, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy, Rockefeller U., 1986; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1987.
Career
Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1987-1989; postdoctoral fellow, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1989-1991; instructor, Yale University, New Haven, 1991-1992; assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1992-1995; associate professor, Yale University, New Haven, since 1995. Visiting professor Chinese Academy Preventive Medicine, Shanghai, 1997.
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Parasitic Diseases 6th Edition
(Remarkable achievements in parasitic disease research, bo...)
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Parasitic Diseases
(Worldwide, the numbers of people suffering and dying from...)
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Parasitic Diseases, Fourth Edition
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Parasitic Diseases 6th Edition
Membership
Member American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Society Parasitologists, Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (advisory board journal, Young Investigator award 1993), Society Pediatric Research.
Connections
Married Ann Elizabeth Frifield, September 14, 1987. Children: Matthew, Emily, Rachel, Daniel.
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American