Parasitology category: 138 books

Cover of The Ixodid Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa
by Ivan G. Horak, Heloise Heyne, Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018

This is a comprehensive work summarizing the current state of knowledge of the biology of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) of Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Maputo Province, Mozambique). It provides an overview of the history of tick research in Southern Africa...
Cover of Detection of Bacteria, Viruses, Parasites and Fungi
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010

This publication represents the result of the fruitful workshop organised with the aim to attract the attention on the possibility of bio terrorism attack, with the s- port of NATO funds. In the last years the attention was strongly concentrated on the terrorism view similar to “military type attacks:”...
Cover of Approaches to Design and Synthesis of Antiparasitic Drugs
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997

This book presents a comprehensive and up to date account of the chemotherapy of parasitic diseases, both human and veterinary. The book starts with an overview of parasitic diseases. The body of the book is divided into two parts: antihelminthic drugs, and antiprotozoal drugs. Both parts start with...
Cover of Biodiversity and Evolution of Parasitic Life in the Southern Ocean
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated. Especially the influence of parasites on their host species needs intensive consideration in times of global warming and worldwide...
Cover of Parasitic Protozoa of Farm Animals and Pets
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

This book provides an in-depth yet concise overview of the most common and emerging protozoa that cause diseases in both farm animals and companion animals. As outlined in the concise introduction, pathogenic protozoans represent an evolutionary highly diverse and little understood group of disease-causing...
Cover of Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017

This unique book contains not only a comprehensive up-to-date summary of the achievements made in all areas of Nematology in South Africa over more than half a century, but it also combines this rather technical part with an insiders narrative of how Nematology started and developed. It also demonstrates...
Cover of Arthropod Borne Diseases
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Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016

Arthropod borne diseases cause enormous morbidity and mortality in most countries, mostly in those situated in tropical areas, but also in temperate regions. This book provides organized information on all arthropod related diseases, to prevent suffering and deaths, for medical students and professionals....
Cover of Giardia as a Foodborne Pathogen
by Lucy J. Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013

Although widely recognized as an important waterborne pathogen, Giardia duodenalis can also be transmitted by contamination of food. The same properties of this protozoan parasite that mean that water is an excellent transmission vehicle are also important for foodborne transmission. These include...
Cover of Control of Human Parasitic Diseases
by David Molyneux
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2007

Control of parasitic infections of humans has progressed rapidly over the last three decades. Such advances have resulted from focal disease control efforts based on historically effective interventions to new approaches to control following intensive research and pilot programs. Control of Human...
Cover of Neglected Tropical Diseases - Oceania
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

This volume of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) series covers the most prevalent NTDs in Oceania. This book will discuss in detail pathology, diagnostics and control approaches of selected NTDs in the geographic region. A large part of Oceania’s population lives in poverty and therefore is...
Cover of Cysticercosis of the Human Nervous System
by Oscar H. Del Brutto, Héctor H. García
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

​Neurocysticercosis (neural infection by larvae of Taenia solium) occurs when humans become intermediate hosts of the tapeworm Taenia solium after ingesting its eggs. The disease is now the most common helminthic infection of the nervous system in humans, and its prevalence has risen significantly...
Cover of Parasites and the Behavior of Animals
by Janice Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002

When a parasite invades an ant, does the ant behave like other ants? Maybe not-and if it doesn't, who, if anyone, benefits from the altered behaviors? The parasite? The ant? Parasites and the Behavior of Animals shows that parasite-induced behavioral alterations are more common than we might realize,...
Cover of Important Helminth Infections in Southeast Asia

Important Helminth Infections in Southeast Asia

Diversity and Potential for Control and Elimination, Part A

by Xiao-Nong Zhou, Robert Bergquist, Remigio Olveda
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011

This thematic volume provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews pertaining to the epidemiology, public health significance and shifts therein, control (current activities, successes, setbacks), persisting challenges (e.g. sanitation, universal coverage of health services, health-related behavior)...
Cover of Natural History of Host-Parasite Interactions
by Joanne P. Webster
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2009

This volume covers a wide range of systems, exemplified by a broad spectrum of micro- and macro-parasites, impacting humans, domestic and wild animals and plants. It illustrates the importance of evolutionary considerations and concepts, both as thinking tools for qualitative understanding or as guiding...
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