Main description:

This book is a complete guide to medical parasitology for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The new edition has been fully revised to provide the latest updates and advances in the field, highlighting epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of numerous parasitic diseases.

Presented in bullet format, the text is divided into four main sections, each further sub-divided to cover different parasites.

The second edition covers recent advances in laboratory diagnosis, treatment guidelines, vaccine prophylaxis, epidemiology of infectious diseases, and hospital infection control.

Each chapter features questions on the topic to assist revision, as well as clinical images, schematic diagrams, tables and flowcharts.

Key points

Complete guide to medical parasitology for students
Fully revised, new edition covering latest advances in the field
Includes questions on each topic to assist revision
Previous edition (9789351523291) published in 2014

Contents:

Section 1 INTRODUCTION

General Introduction: Parasitology

Section 2 PROTOZOOLOGY

Introduction to Protozoa
Amoeba
Flagellates-I (Intestinal and Genital)
Flagellates-II (Hemoflagellates)
Apicomplexa-I (Malaria parasite and Babesia)
Apicomplexa-II (Opportunistic Coccidian Parasites)
Miscellaneous Protozoa

Section 3 HELMINTHOLOGY

Introduction to Helminths
Cestodes
Trematodes or Flukes
Nematodes-I (Intestinal Nematodes)
Nematodes-II (Nematodes of Lower Animals that Rarely Infect Man)
Nematodes-III (Somatic Nematodes)

Section 4 MISCELLANEOUS

Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases
Medical Entomology

Appendices

Appendix I Clinical syndromes in parasitology

Appendix II Relative size of morphological forms of parasites

Index