Markell and Voge's medical parasitology
Featuring line drawings and halftones that provide visual examples related directly to the textual material, this title explores the etiologic agents of human disease belonging to the animal kingdom: protozoa, helminths, and arthropods, all of which are a significant cause of, or link to illness enc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 9th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Parasites, parasitism, and host relations
- 3. Lumen-dwelling protozoa
- 4. Malaria
- 5. Other blood- and tissue-dwelling protozoa, color plates
- 6. The trematodes
- 7. The cestodes
- 8. The intestinal nematodes
- 9. The blood- and tissue-dwelling nematodes
- 10. Arthropods and human disease
- 11. Parasitic infections in immunocompromised hosts
- 12. Signs and symptoms of parasitic disease
- 13. Pseudoparasites and pitfalls
- 14. Examination of stool specimens
- 15. Examination of blood, other body fluids and tissues, sputum, and urine
- 16. Immunodiagnostic techniques