This book provides a comprehensive reference and diagnostic aid to the practicing pathologist or infectious disease specialist encountering a parasite in an examined tissue sample. Organized by phylogenetic group, the text facilitates diagnosis by discussing common characteristics and patternsof different parasites, and misleading artifacts that resemble parasites in tissue. This second edition includes molecular biology and immunologic aspects, and a more in-depth discussion of syndromes more prevalent due to increased world travel, immigration and the AIDS epidemic.

Early diagnosis of parasitic diseases, especially of the opportunistic infections, is gaining importance daily and pathologists now have the chance to make rapid diagnoses of these disorders by examining tissues and body fluids. Though parasitic infections and infestations occur mainly in subtropical and tropical areas, they are increasingly imported into other areas, where the pathologist must be able to recognize them. This new full-colour atlas, containing over 500 photographs, many diagrams and tables, with extensive references and index, concentrates on histology, differential diagnosis and on the structure of parasitic elements such as eggs, larvae and adult worms, in and outside tissues. The atlas will be invaluable as a bench manual for the practising pathologists to keep by the microscope, as well as for physicians, surgeons, dermatologists and pathologists in training, and all those who are concerned with parasitic infections.

Diagnostic Medical Parasitology is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the diagnosis of parasitic diseases in humans. Written by two authors with years of practical laboratory experience, this book serves as a how to text for all diagnostic procedures in the identification of parasitic infections. The first section of Diagnostic Medical Parasitology is a thorough presentation of parasites seen in the clinical laboratory. Each is accompanied by drawings, identification charts, photographs, the parasite's life cycle, diagnostic laboratory procedures, interpretation of laboratory results, and diagnostic tips. The text includes the treatment, epidemiology and prevention for each parasitic disease. This section also includes chapters on the immuno-compromised patient, nosocomial and laboratory-acquired infections, unusual parasitic organisms, and medical important arthropods. The second part of the book details both common and specialized laboratory techniques needed to diagnose parasitic infections. You'll find easy-to-follow laboratory procedures for the collection, examination, and fixation of specimens, as well as quality control and laboratory safety recommendations.

Parasitic diseases, humans, pathology and clinical features.

Early diagnosis of parasitic diseases, especially of the opportunistic infections, is gaining importance daily and pathologists now have the chance to make rapid diagnoses of these disorders by examining tissues and body fluids. Though parasitic infections and infestations occur mainly in subtropical and tropical areas, they are increasingly imported into other areas, where the pathologist must be able to recognize them. This new full-colour atlas, containing over 500 photographs, many diagrams and tables, with extensive references and index, concentrates on histology, differential diagnosis and on the structure of parasitic elements such as eggs, larvae and adult worms, in and outside tissues. The atlas will be invaluable as a bench manual for the practising pathologists to keep by the microscope, as well as for physicians, surgeons, dermatologists and pathologists in training, and all those who are concerned with parasitic infections.

Examines parasites that cause malaria, babesiosis, trypanosomiasis, leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, pneumocystosis, and filariasis.