This is a thorough revision and update of the highly successful first edition, which which achieved sales in excess of 4,500. The text serves as a comprehensive introduction to parasitology for both undergraduate and beginning graduate students. In this edition, particular emphasis is placed on parasites of human and veterinary importance. The first three chapters in the text are concerned with how parasites 'work,' their biochemistry, molecular and cell biology and physiology. The remaining chapters cover ecology and epidemiology, immunology and chemotherapy, with the final chapter covering integrated control. This new edition contains new material on cell and molecular biology, vectors and control, which is in contrast to the general biological approach of the first edition. The second edition will succeed the first as the major text on parasitology for students in biology, zoology, microbiology, medicine, veterinary medicine, tropical medicine and public health.
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This is a thorough revision and update of this highly successful text which achieved sales in excess of 4,500 in the first edition. The text serves as a comprehensive introduction to parasitology for both undergraduate and beginning graduate students. In this edition, particular emphasis is placed on parasites of human and veterinary importance. The first three chapters in the text are concerned with how parasites 'work', their biochemistry, molecular and cell biology and physiology. The remaining chapters cover ecology and epidemiology, immunology and chemotherapy and the final chapter covers integrated control. This new edition contains new material on cell and molecular biology, vectors and control, in contrast to the general biological approach of the first edition. The second edition will succeed the first as the major text on parasitology for students in biology, zoology, microbiology, medicine, veterinary medicine, tropical medicine and public health.
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As someone who is learning parasitology this book is a valuable resource. As a college level book, it was easy to read and to be quite honest, enjoyable to read. It covers a myriad of topics related to parasitology from life-cycles to drug treatments. I also purchased 'Parasite Menace' by Skye Weintraub which was very helpful from a treatment perspective. Weintraub does an excellent job in outlining parasites and presents a non-drug guideline for treatment.
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There are over 45 000 named species of protozoa now living of which nearly 10 000 are parasitic in invertebrates and in almost every species of vertebrate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
larval cestodiasis, infective stage density, malate dismutation, mean parasite burden, homidium bromide, platyhelminth parasites, parasite aggregation, metacercarial cysts, mean worm burden, kinetoplastid flagellates, adult helminths, basic reproductive rate, antiparasite drugs, filarial species, molecular parasitology, molluscan host, host behaviour, transmission threshold, transmission success, infective parasites, human schistosomes, transmission stages, parasite numbers, parasitic helminths, tsetse control Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Parasitology Today, World Health Organization, New York, Academic Press, Central America, Middle East, South America, West Africa, Far East, Cambridge University Press, Boca Raton, Oxford University Press, East Coast Fever, Sub-Saharan Africa, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Experimental Parasitology, John Wiley, Journal of Parasitology, After Anderson, Elsevier Trends Journals, Expert Committee, Molecular Transfer Across Parasite Membranes, Biochemical Protozoology, Churchill Livingstone, Croom Helm New!
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There are over 45 000 named species of protozoa now living of which nearly 10 000 are parasitic in invertebrates and in almost every species of vertebrate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
larval cestodiasis, infective stage density, malate dismutation, mean parasite burden, homidium bromide, platyhelminth parasites, parasite aggregation, metacercarial cysts, mean worm burden, kinetoplastid flagellates, adult helminths, basic reproductive rate, antiparasite drugs, filarial species, molecular parasitology, molluscan host, host behaviour, transmission threshold, transmission success, infective parasites, human schistosomes, transmission stages, parasite numbers, parasitic helminths, tsetse control Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Parasitology Today, World Health Organization, New York, Academic Press, Central America, Middle East, South America, West Africa, Far East, Cambridge University Press, Boca Raton, Oxford University Press, East Coast Fever, Sub-Saharan Africa, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Experimental Parasitology, John Wiley, Journal of Parasitology, After Anderson, Elsevier Trends Journals, Expert Committee, Molecular Transfer Across Parasite Membranes, Biochemical Protozoology, Churchill Livingstone, Croom Helm New!
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- Molecular Parasitology by John E. Hyde on 5 pages
- Biochemistry of parasitic helminths by John Barrett on page 117, page 136, and page 241
- Molecular Transfer Across Parasite Membranes (Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology Vol 25) by C. Arme on page 190, page 191, and page 192
- Epidemiology and Control of African Trypanosomiasis (Technical Report) by World Health Organization on page 23, page 242, and page 263
- Essential malariology (A Wiley medical publication) by Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt on page 22, and page 73
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- Blueprints Obstetrics and Gynecology (Blueprints Series) by Aaron B. Caughey on page 154, and Back Matter
- Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population by T. H. Clutton-Brock in Back Matter
- Blueprints Q&A Step 3: Obstetrics and Gynecology by Aaron B. Caughey in Front Matter
- Ecology of the Acanthocephala by C. R. Kennedy in Back Matter
- Blueprints Clinical Cases in Obstetrics and Gynecology by Aaron B. Caughey on page 55
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