Parasitology textbooks free download

Numerous detailed drawings, with structures labeled illustrate the information in an easy-to-understand format.

Individual parasite descriptions include concise information on life cycles, epidemiology, clinical symptomatology, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control, notes of interest, and new trends. Increased number of case studies offers more opportunities for application of chapter content to real-life scenarios.

Identification worksheets let you make your own drawings of parasites. Full-color design throughout the book provides a more accessible look and feel. Quick Quizzes, or periodic self-assessments, are included in each chapter to assess your knowledge. Student resources on the Evolve companion website feature additional case studies, interactive quizzes, and a veterinary parasitology reference guide.

Focusing In boxes and Looking Back boxes, offer helpful chapter introductions and chapter summaries respectively. Divided into 23 chapters, each topic has been thoroughly updated and expanded to cover the most recent advances and latest knowledge in the field. The book begins with an overview of parasitology, then discusses numerous different types of parasite, concluding with a chapter on diagnosis methods.

Many chapters have been rewritten and the eighth edition of the book features many new tables, flow charts and photographs. Textbook of clinical parasitology including laboratory identification and teachnic Author : David L. Score: 5.

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The whole content of the book has been arranged in a bulleted format and the use of subheads has increased the readability. The entire book is divided into four sections—General introduction, Protozoology, Helminthology and Miscellaneous. In the end, six appendices have been incorporated which will be of immense use and initiate interest among the students. Expected questions including MCQs have been added at the end of each chapter which will help to reinforce and understand the related topic in a better way.

Life cycles are drawn in a lucid and easy-to-grasp manner, exactly according to the text. Real microscopic images of parasites and specimens from various sources are being incorporated to correlate their impressions with the related parasitic diseases. Laboratory diagnosis and treatment boxes are introduced as different entities for a quick review for students as well as for physicians.

Our endeavour will be successful if the book is found to be useful for students as well as for the faculty. Medical Parasitology deals with the study of animal parasites, which infect and produce diseases in human beings. These names are either derived from names of their discoverers, Greek or Latin words of the geographical area where they are found, habitat of the parasite, or hosts in which parasites are found and their size and shape.

All parasites are classified under the following taxonomic units—the kingdom, subkingdom, phylum, subphylum, superclass, class, subclass, order, suborder, superfamily, family, genus and species. The generic name of the parasite always begins with an initial capital letter and species name with an initial small letter, e.

PARASITE: Parasite is a living organism, which lives in or upon another organism host and derives nutrients directly from it, without giving any benefit to the host. Protozoa and helminths animal parasites are studied in Medical Parasitology. Download link. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.