Fasciolosis (eBook)

Professor John Dalton graduated from University College Dublin with a PhD in Molecular Parasitology, before becoming a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on schistosomes at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, then malaria at the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, USA. He briefly returned to Ireland as a lecturer at Dublin City University, before taking Director level roles at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, and later McGill University, Canada. Returning home in 2013, he became the Professor in Infectious Diseases at Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and since 2019 has taken the role of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Professor in Molecular Parasitology at the National University of Ireland Galway.

The desktop publishing production is very high, with excellent colour figures and well-designed schematics throughout. More importantly, perhaps, each chapter comes with an extensive reference list which, if a back of the envelope calculation allows, likely cites over 2,500 source articles in total. It's very hard to identify then which literature, if any, is missing. Dipping into this alphabetical treasure trove is something I look forward to in years to come. I confidently say in years to come for I have had the first edition of Fasciolosis in my library since 1999. I have used its contents for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and will now happily include various updates from this second edition.

Both editions of Fasciolosis were expertly edited by Prof John Dalton. It is evidence enough to his academic passion for fluke. Notably, although there is a similar total number of pages in each edition, in the new edition, each chapter is now in two-column format. This change roughly equates to twice the information conveyed, which is justifiable given the last two decades of research. For example, from 2006 onwards, fasciolosis has been rebranded within the WHO's Neglected Tropical Diseases that puts a new spotlight on infection and disease in people across the world.

Indeed, there is much to digest and learn a new from this expanded second edition. I expect John has had to work twice as hard to bring all this together and I am delighted that he has shared his and his co-authors' vision on research on fluke. To close, I strongly recommend this book to all our readers.