- 300 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Protozoa and Human Disease
About this book
Protozoa and Human Disease is a textbook on medically important protozoa and the diseases they cause for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals. It combines a taxonomic and medical approach and is therefore suitable for a parasitology, microbiology, medical, and public health readership. In addition to the basics such as morphological features, life cycles, and the clinical manifestations of the diseases, topics like the molecular and immunological basis of pathogenesis, metabolic pathways, specialized subcellular structures, ecology of disease transmission, antigenic variation, and molecular epidemiology are discussed for many of the protozoan pathogens. At the end of the book is an extensive glos
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Topic
MedicineSubtopic
EpidemiologyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Contents in Detail
- 1 Introduction to Medical Protozoology
- 2 Overview of Intestinal Protozoa
- 3 Entamoeba and Amebiasis
- 4 Giardiasis
- 5 Trichomonas vaginalis and Other Trichomonads
- 6 Balantidium coli and Blastocystis hominis
- 7 Kinetoplastids
- 8 African Trypanosomiasis
- 9 Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas' Disease
- 10 Leishmaniasis
- 11 General Apicomplexan Biology
- 12 Cryptosporidium
- 13 Monoxenous Intestinal Coccidia
- 14 Toxoplasma gondii and Tissue Cyst Forming Coccidia
- 15 Malaria
- 16 Babesiosis
- 17 Free-Living Protozoa Affecting Human Health
- Glossary
- Index
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