Veterinary Parasitology: Reference Manual [Spiral-bound]

William J. Foreyt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0813824192 | ISBN-13: 978-0813824192 | Publication Date: October 15, 2001 | Edition: 5

Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition is a practical, thorough, bench top reference for basic diagnostic veterinary parasitology. The manual provides pertinent information on parasite life cyles, importance, location in the host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, and treatment. It also includes step-by-step instructions for the most common diagnostic procedures used in routine veterinary practice.

Sections are organized by animal host species, including dogs; cats; cattle, sheep and goats; llamas; horses; pigs; birds; ratites (ostriches, emus, and cassowaries); and laboratory animals, as well as wildlife, reptiles, marine mammals, and humans. There is a section in which common artifacts found in fecal samples are presented, and the last section includes conversion tables and a list of abbreviations.

Features of the Fifth edition include:
* updated and enhanced references
* information on new drugs
* improved section on parasites of marine mammals
* sections on parasites of laboratory animals and humans
* over 500 photographs and figures

Readers will find this to be an easily accessible and accurate resource for information about parasites in a variety of animals - wild, domestic, common and exotic.

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From the Back Cover

Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition provides easy access to pertinent information on parasite life cycles, importance, location in host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters are organized by animal host species, including laboratory animals, humans, llamas, ratites, dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, and birds, as well as reptiles, wildlife, and marine animals, often missing from veterinary parasitology textbooks, but of practical interest to veterinarians.

The manual includes step-by-step instructions for the most common diagnostic procedures used in routine veterinary practice.

Features of the Fifth Edition include:

Updated and enhanced references

Information on new drugs

Improved parasites of marine mammals section

Sections on laboratory animal parasites and human parasites

Over 500 photographs and figures

Foreyt underscores the strong relationship between parasites and the overall health of animals and stresses that indiscriminate use of drugs is a poor substitute for good management and nutrition in controlling parasites. The text also offers insights into the evolving relationships between hosts and parasites.

Wildlife and zoo workers, veterinary practitioners, students, and technicians will find this to be a readable and accurate resource of information about parasites in a variety of animals—wild, domestic, common and exotic.

About the Author

William J. Foreyt is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman. Dr. Foreyt specializes in veterinary and wildlife parasitology, epizootiology, and parasitic and disease interactions among domestic livestock, wildlife and humans

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 235 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 5 edition (October 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813824192
• ISBN-13: 978-0813824192
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.9 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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41 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An OK Parasitology teaching guide for classroom use, January 11, 2004

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Sue B Reith - See all my reviews

This review is from: Veterinary Parasitology: Reference Manual (Spiral-bound)

This book has its place as a basic general student Parasitology textbook, which I suspect may be its intent... When compared for overall content to other parasitology reference manuals, such as Georgi's Parasitology for Veterinarians (an excellent reference for professional veterinary use if looking for the parasite's background, though not for its ID) I'd give it about a "C" rating. However, I simply cannot recommend this book for use as a reference guide for specifically identifying the parasite eggs or oocysts seen on a microscope slide. Why? One reason is that many of the eggs in the book are artists' hand-drawn, stylized renditions. These cannot compete with actual photographs, wherein the nuances of fine photographic detail set one species of worm egg apart from often quite similar eggs of other species... And, there are inconsistencies in the presentation... On one page, for example, a few hand-drawn egg illustrations show the comparative size of various egg species. Actual size of egg type 'A', for example, is noted to be somewhat smaller than that of egg type 'B'. A few pages later, however, egg 'A', the smaller of the two on the comparative size page, appears in a photo to be about 4X larger than egg type 'B', shown in another photo on that same page. This is critical because often two species of eggs can be so similar in appearance that to accurately determine one species from another for proper eradication, size really DOES matter! Some of the egg photos that are available (and not all are), such as the Haemonchus contortus egg, are of poor quality, thus of no real use for reference... There has been an ongoing livestock parasite management crisis lately on an international scale, because lack of a good photo ID reference book has caused eggs from other worm species to be mis-identified as those of Haemonchus contortus. The egg of one specific and very nasty worm, a Liver fluke called Fasciola hepatica, is often misidentified as Haemonchus, but it unfortunately does NOT respond to the same wormer that wipes Haemonchus out. As a result, the Fasciola hepatica worms, treated with wormers that kill off Haemonchus, refuse to die! The host animal is then determined to be harboring a 'resistant' strain of Haemonchus, and is recommended for culling. But in this book the egg from the Liver fluke is actually found many pages away from the Haemonchus egg, and listed under another host species altogether. Sadly, as a reference to be used for accurate identification of the eggs/oocysts of internal parasites seen on a microscope slide, this book cannot take the place of the out-of-print 1st thru 5th Editions of Sloss' Veterinary Clinical Parasitology.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Parasitology, September 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual (Paperback)

This book was very useful while studying veterinary parasitology. There are large photos of most eggs which make studying for lab praticals helpful. In addition it is divided into sections by animal so you can see the most common parasites for that particular species. Each parasite also has a discriptive life cycle diagram next to it. I would highly recomend this book as a helpful addition to the parasitology lab.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent addition to the veterinary literature, August 27, 2002

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Omar O. Barriga - See all my reviews

This review is from: Veterinary Parasitology: Reference Manual (Spiral-bound)

This is the 2001 fifth edition of a book first published in 1989. That alone tells you that veterinarians like it. To me, it is a rather surprising book. It is divided into 17 sections, the first devoted to methods of parasitological diagnosis, 14 devoted to parasites of every kind of mammals and birds (domestic, wild, and in-between) and reptiles, and 2 to artifacts and tables. The sections devoted to animals include clear drawings and excellent black and white photographs of the diagnostic elements for the common parasites (eggs, larva, spcimens, etc.), drawings of the life cycles, lists of the common antiparasitic drugs with dosis and indications, list of the zoonosis associated with the respective animal, and a very brief summary of the morphology, importance, diagnosis, treatment, and sometimes prevention of each parasite. For the abundance and quality of the photographs, one tends to consider this books as a diagnosis manual, but it is much more. It becomes closer to an encyclopedia of important practical issues of veterinary parasitology, condensed into 235 pages, at a ridiculous low price. Whom is useful for? Certainly for the veterinarian who wants to identify a parasitic infection but also for someone who needs to remember the latests treatment or some forgotten detail of a parasitic infection. I suspect that it should be quite welcome by the veterinary student who pays due attention to the lectures and then wants a condensed summary of the important points. A surprising book but very good and useful indeed