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Title Principles and practice of clinical parasitology / edited by Stephen H. Gillespie, Richard D. Pearson
Published Chichester ; New York : Wiley, [2001]
©2001
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Description 1 online resource (x, 670 pages) : illustrations
Series Principles and Practice Series
Principles and practice series.
Contents Ch. 1. History of parasitology -- Ch. 2. Parasite epidemiology -- Ch. 3. Malaria -- Ch. 4. Babesiosis -- Ch. 5. Toxoplasmosis -- Ch. 6. Cryptosporidiosis and isosporiasis -- Ch. 7. Cyclospora -- Ch. 8. Microsporidia -- Ch. 9. Amebas -- Ch. 10. Giardia lambia -- Ch. 11. Trichomonads -- Ch. 12. Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amebas: Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp. and Balamuthia mandrillaris -- Ch. 13. Leishmaniasis -- Ch. 14a. African trypanosomiasis -- Ch. 14b. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease) -- Ch. 15. Blastocystis -- Ch. 16. Schistosomiasis -- Ch. 17. Hepatobiliary and pulmonary flukes: Opisthorchis, Clonorchis, Fasciola and Paragonimus species -- Ch. 18a. Blood-borne filarial infections: Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, Brugia timori, Loa loa, Mansonella perstans and Mansonella ozzardi -- Ch. 18b. Onchocerciasis -- Ch. 18c. Strongyloides stercoralis and S. fulleborni -- Ch. 19a. Toxocariasis -- Ch. 19b. Trichinellosis -- Ch. 19c. Migrating worms -- Ch. 20. Dracunculiasis -- Ch. 21. Intestinal nematodes -- Ch. 22. Echinococcosis -- Ch. 23. Cestodes -- Ch. 24. Intestinal trematodes
Summary A comprehensive account of protozoan and metozoan diseases in modern clinical practice, with orientation towards clinical management of parasitic infections. In the past, parasitology was considered as an obscure subject of little relevance to the majority of clinicians and microbiologists. Over the last decade, however, much has happened to change this, not least the explosion in foreign travel
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Medical parasitology.
Parasites -- pathogenicity.
Parasitic Diseases -- parasitology.
Parasitology -- methods.
Genre/Form Online resources
Form Electronic book
Author Gillespie, S. H.
Pearson, Richard D.
ISBN 0470842504 (electronic bk.)
0470851724 (electronic bk.)
9780470842508 (electronic bk.)
9780470851722 (electronic bk.)
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