Chapter 1 Primates, Pathogens and Evolution: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Vertebrate Immune System Evolution and Comparative Primate Immunity

Chapter 3 Genetic Variation in the Immune System of Old World Monkeys: Functional and Selective Effects

Chapter 4 Toll-Like Receptor Function and Evolution in Primates

Chapter 5 Impact of Natural Selection Due to Malarial Disease on Human Genetic Variation

Chapter 6 Parasitic Lice Help to Fill in the Gaps of Early Hominid History

Chapter 7 Treponema pallidum Infection in Primates: Clinical Manifestations, Epidemiology, and Evolution of a Stealthy Pathogen

Chapter 8 Molecular Mimicry by γ-2 Herpesviruses to Modulate Host Cell Signaling Pathways

Chapter 9 Neotropical Primates and Their Susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii: New Insights for an Old Problem

Chapter 10 The Evolution of SIV in Primates and the Emergence of the Pathogen of AIDS

Chapter 11 Microbial Exposures and Other Early Childhood Influences on the Subsequent Function of the Immune System

Chapter 12 Make New Friends and Keep the Old? Parasite Coinfection and Comorbidity in Homo sapiens