• Exam-oriented text in a bulleted format.
• Includes more than 150 color schematic diagrams and more than 100 slides for easy learning.
• Provides latest updates in laboratory techniques epidemiological data, and treatment strategies.
• The whole content of the book has been arranged in a bulleted format.
• Entire book is divided into four sections—General introduction, Protozoology, Helminthology and Miscellaneous.
• Extensive use of sub-head increases the readability of the text.
• Summary of laboratory diagnosis and treatment given in separate boxes for quick review.
• Latest updates such as vaccine trials of malaria, drug resistance in malaria, Del Brutto’s diagnostic criteria of neurocysticercosis, culture techniques and immunodiagnostic techniques in parasitic diseases have been incorporated.
• Expected questions including MCQs have been added at the end of each chapter to reinforce and understand the in a better way by the student.
• Life cycles are drawn in lucid and easy-to-grasp manner.
• Laboratory diagnosis and treatment boxes are introduced as a different entity for a quick review for students as well as for physicians.
• Real microscopic images of parasites and specimens from various sources are incorporated to correlate their impressions with the related parasitic diseases
. • Six useful appendices have been incorporated at the end.
• This book is designed specifically for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, paramedical students, and faculty.
About The Author:
Apurba Sankar Sastry, MD,DNB, MNAMS,PDCR, Assistant Professor , Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry,India,Sandhya Bhat K, MD,DNB, MNAMS,PDCR, Assistant Professor , Department of Microbiology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Pondicherry, India
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: General Introduction: parasitologySection 2: Protozoology
Chapter 2: Introduction to protozoa Chapter 3: Amoeba Chapter 4: Flagellates—I (Intestinal and Genital)Chapter 5: Flagellates—II (Hemofl agellates)Chapter 6: Sporozoa—I (Malaria parasite and Babesia)Chapter 7: Sporozoa—II (Opportunistic Coccidian parasites)Chapter 8: Miscellaneous protozoaSection 3: Helminthology
Chapter 9: Introduction to HelminthsSection 3: Helminthology
Chapter 9: Introduction to HelminthsChapter 10: CestodesChapter 11: Trematodes or FlukesChapter 12: Nematodes—I (Intestinal Nematodes Chapter 13: Nematodes—II (Nematodes of Lower Animals Chapter 14: Nematodes—III (Somatic Nematodes)Section 4: Miscellaneous
Chapter 15: Laboratory Diagnosis of parasitic Diseases Chapter 16: Medical Entomology
that Rarely infect Man) Appendix
