Medical Parasitology / James T. Culbertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culbertson, James T., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1942]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the effects of parasites on the community as the chance of the spread of these diseases increases with air travel. Also deals with the epidemiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis of the infections for which the human parasites are responsible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PLATES

FIGURES

TABLES

I. INTRODUCTION

Part One GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

II. INFECTION

III. EPIDEMIOLOGY

IV. NATURAL RESISTANCE AND ACQUIRED IMMUNITY

V. DIAGNOSIS

VI. SPECIFIC THERAPY

VII. PROPHYLAXIS

Part Two INFECTIONS CAUSED BY ANIMAL PARASITES

VIII. THE AMOEBIASES

X. THE TRYPANOSOMIASES

XI. THE INTESTINAL FLAGELLATE INFECTIONS

XII. THE MALARIAS

XIII. THE COCCIDIOSES

XIV. THE CILIATE INFECTIONS

XV. THE TREMATODE INFECTIONS

XVI. THE CESTODE INFECTIONS

XVII. THE NEMATODE INFECTIONS

XIX. ARTHROPODA OF MEDICAL IMPORTANCE: HEXAPODA (INSECTA)

XX. ARTHROPODA OF MEDICAL IMPORTANCE: ARACHNIDA, CRUSTACEA, AND MYRIAPODA

APPENDIX: TECHNICAL METHODS

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88635-7

OCLC:

1100441746