Mark F Wiser

Protozoa and Human Disease (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136738166
• Artikelnr.: 57902671

Autorenporträt

Mark F Wiser

Inhaltsangabe

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 Cyst-forming
Coccidia 15. Malaria 16. Babesiosis 17. Free-Living Protozoa Affecting
Human Health
Glossary