Principles and practice of clinical parasitology [

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...

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Main Authors: Gillespie, S. H. (Author), Pearson, Richard D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, England ; New York : John Wiley & Sons , 2001
Series:Principles and Practice Series
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Online Access:Wiley Online Library
Table of Contents:
  • 1. History of parasitology
  • 2. Parasite epidemiology
  • 3. Malaria
  • 4. Babesiosis
  • 5. Toxoplasmosis
  • 6. Cryptosporidiosis and isosporiasis
  • 7. Cyclospora
  • 8. Microsporidia
  • 9. Amebas
  • 10. Giardia lambia
  • 11. Trichomonads
  • 12. Pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amebas: Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp. and Balamuthia mandrillaris
  • 13. Leishmaniasis
  • 14a. African trypanosomiasis
  • 14b. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease)
  • 15. Blastocystis
  • 16. Schistosomiasis
  • 17. Hepatobiliary and pulmonary flukes: Opisthorchis, Clonorchis, Fasciola and Paragonimus species
  • 18a. Blood-borne filarial infections: Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, Brugia timori, Loa loa, Mansonella perstans and Mansonella ozzardi
  • 18b. Onchocerciasis
  • 18c. Strongyloides stercoralis and S. fulleborni
  • 19a. Toxocariasis
  • 19b. Trichinellosis
  • 19c. Migrating worms
  • 20. Dracunculiasis
  • 21. Intestinal nematodes
  • 22. Echinococcosis
  • 23. Cestodes
  • 24. Intestinal trematodes