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Knowledge in the field of parasitology must be kept at a high level and up to date in order to fight a parasitosis as quickly and effectively as possible. The third edition of the “Encyclopedia of Parasitology” contributes to these goals in several ways: the number of entries has been increased by about 30%, the content has been even more improved by adding more tables and figures. The extensive linking between definitions and essays facilitates information within a minimum of time. More than 40 international contributors, who are well known specialists in their fields, give a comprehensive review of all parasites and therapeutic strategies in veterinarian and human parasitology. The third edition is now presented as two volumes in A-Z format and additionally in an electronic online version.
Biology --- Parasitology --- Life sciences --- Biomass --- Life (Biology) --- Natural history --- Microbiology. --- Medical parasitology. --- Dermatology. --- Gastroenterology. --- Clinical medicine. --- Zoology. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Parasitology. --- Hepatology. --- Animals --- Medicine, Clinical --- Medicine --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Skin --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitic diseases --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Diseases --- Parasites --- Medical microbiology. --- Gastroenterology . --- Gastroenterology --- Veterinary parasitology --- Medical parasitology --- Research
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Recent advances in parasitological research have resulted in new, promising insights in the fight of parasite versus host. The "Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology", which is the completely revised second edition of "Parasitology in Focus" gives a comprehensive review of the facts and trends in veterinarian and human parasitology. In addition to the authors of the first edition, several internationally renowned specialists have been added. The book is now an Encyclopedic Reference, with all keywords and terms arranged alphabetically in the form of standardised entries. This enables information to be accessed more directly and much faster. The enclosed CD-ROM includes the full texts and all illustrations from both volumes, all fully hyperlinked, and has the added advantage of allowing rapid electronic searching.
Medical microbiology, virology, parasitology --- General parasitology --- Biology. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Parasitology -- Encyclopedias. --- Parasitology --- Microbiology. --- Zoology. --- Clinical medicine. --- Gastroenterology. --- Dermatology. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Hepatology. --- Medicine --- Skin --- Internal medicine --- Digestive organs --- Medicine, Clinical --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Diseases --- Medical microbiology. --- Gastroenterology . --- Gastroenterology --- Parasitic Diseases. --- Parasitic Diseases --- Parasites --- PARASITES --- PARASITIC DISEASES --- THERAPY --- EPIDEMIOLOGY --- PREVENTION AND CONTROL --- IMMUNOLOGY --- PATHOLOGY
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Parasites threaten the health of animals and humans alike. Especially in times of increasing globalization and global warming, parasites can enlarge their “kingdom” by spreading. At the same time many of the existing medical products have become ineffective. As these products have been used for many decades, parasites have developed resistances, so that they have progressed in their fight for survival. Therefore it is obvious that humans must develop new methods to face these dangers. Thus parasitological knowledge increases daily and must be formulated to be accessible for as many parasitologists (veterinarians, physicians, biologists) as possible. Therefore it is necessary that reviews reflecting the present status of the progress in many fields of research be published. Therefore this book, published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the German Society of Parasitology, compiles 18 reviews on recent “hot topics,” including a new vaccine against malarial parasites; severe diseases with poor chances of treatment (cryptosporidiosis, coccidiosis, theileriosis); vectors (mosquitoes, ticks) and their transmission activities; and fish parasites, including molecular insights into the sex of parasites with a focus on the survival abilities that made them so dangerous. These chapters provide detailed information for researchers, as well as for teachers and students in parasitology.
Parasites. --- Parasitism. --- Zoonoses. --- Parasitology --- Medical parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Diseases --- Biology --- Disease Vectors --- Invertebrates --- Disease Transmission, Infectious --- Animals --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Eukaryota --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Public Health --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Environment and Public Health --- Organisms --- Health Care --- Parasitic Diseases --- Helminths --- Arthropod Vectors --- Parasites --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Zoology - General --- Animal Behavior --- Parasitology. --- Life sciences. --- Ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Zoology. --- Life Sciences. --- Eukaryotic Microbiology. --- Medical parasitology. --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Natural history --- Ecology --- Ecology .
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This textbook provides an up-to-date overview of the most important parasites in humans and their potential vectors. For each parasite, the book offers a concise summary including its distribution, epidemiology, life cycle, morphology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapeutic measures. Numerous tables, diagrams and over 200 colorful illustrations highlight the main aspects of parasitic infestations and present suitable control measures. 60 questions help to test readers’ theoretical knowledge of the field. In short, the book is highly recommended for anyone looking to delve into the field of human parasitology. It is intended for students of biology and human medicine, medical doctors, pharmacists and laboratory staff alike. Furthermore, persons who plan to visit or live longer in endemic regions will find essential information on necessary preventive and control measurements.
Medicine. --- Medical microbiology. --- Parasitology. --- Public health. --- Pathology. --- Tropical medicine. --- Zoology. --- Biomedicine. --- Public Health. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Tropical Medicine. --- Parasitic diseases --- Parasitologie médicale --- Parasites --- diagnosis --- treatment --- Parasitology --- Diseases, Tropical --- Hygiene, Tropical --- Medicine --- Public health, Tropical --- Sanitation, Tropical --- Tropical diseases --- Disease (Pathology) --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Parasitic Diseases --- diagnosis. --- treatment. --- Medical parasitology. --- Microbiology. --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Medical climatology --- Medical sciences --- Diseases --- Medicine, Preventive --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Parasitologie médicale. --- Parasites. --- Diagnosis. --- Treatment. --- Communicable diseases --- Medical parasitology --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- National health services --- Sanitation --- therapy --- therapy.
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This edited volume focuses on parasite-host relationships and the behavioral changes parasites may trigger in their hosts. Parasites have developed strategies which enhance their chances to find a host to survive inside its body and to become most easily transmitted to one another. Many of these parasites influence the host’s behavior by various mechanisms, so that the rate of their transmissions to further hosts becomes considerably enhanced in comparison to that of non-influenced specimens of the same host species. A broad number of recent studies elucidate more and more examples in an extreme spectrum of host-parasite relationships, where successful transmission and /or survival of a parasite inside a host is based on parasite-derived behavioral manipulations of the hosts. In the literature, an increasing numbers of papers appear which prove that these behavioral alterations are based on complicated psychoimmunologic, neuropharmacologic and genomically steered mechanisms. Researchers working in parasitology or behavioral sciences will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.
Host-Parasite Interactions --- Host-Pathogen Interactions --- Biological Processes --- Biological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Host-parasite relationships. --- Host-virus relationships. --- Relationships, Host-virus --- Virus-host relationships --- Host-organism relationships --- Host-pathogen relationships --- Parasite-host relationships --- Pathogen-host relationships --- Relationships, Host-parasite --- Medicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Parasitology. --- Behavioral sciences. --- Biomedicine. --- Behavioral Sciences. --- Parasitism --- Host-parasite relationships --- Medical parasitology. --- Animal behavior. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Animals --- Animals, Habits and behavior of --- Behavior, Animal --- Ethology --- Animal psychology --- Zoology --- Ethologists --- Psychology, Comparative --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Behavior --- Parasites
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Without a doubt the recently accelerating globalization supports the import of agents of disease into countries where they never had been or where they had long since been eradicated, leading to a false sense of living on a “safe island.” These newly imported or reintroduced diseases – called “emerging diseases” – may lead to severe outbreaks in cases where the countries are not prepared to combat them, or in cases where viruses are introduced that cannot be controlled by medications or vaccines. Arthropods are well known vectors for the spread of diseases. Thus their invasion from foreign countries and their spreading close to human dwellings must be blocked everywhere (in donor and receptor countries) using safe and effective measures. This book presents reviews on examples of such arthropod-borne emerging diseases that lurk on the fringes of our crowded megacities. The following topics show that there is an ongoing invasion of potential vectors and that control measures must be used now in order to avoid disastrous outbreaks of mass diseases.
Arthropod vectors. --- Emerging infectious diseases -- Epidemiology. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Epidemiology. --- Arthropod vectors --- Emerging infectious diseases --- Disease Vectors --- Communicable Diseases --- Public Health --- Disease Transmission, Infectious --- Medicine --- Infection --- Health Occupations --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Environment and Public Health --- Diseases --- Health Care --- Arthropod Vectors --- Communicable Diseases, Emerging --- Epidemiology --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Transmission of Disease --- Zoology - General --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Arthropoda as carriers of disease --- Life sciences. --- Parasitology. --- Health promotion. --- Veterinary medicine. --- Zoology. --- Life Sciences. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Veterinary Medicine. --- Communicable diseases --- Invertebrates as carriers of disease --- Medical parasitology. --- Medicine. --- Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science. --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Farriery --- Large animal medicine --- Large animal veterinary medicine --- Livestock medicine --- Veterinary science --- Animal health --- Domestic animals --- Livestock --- Parasites --- Losses --- Health Workforce --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education
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This book sheds new light on the use of nanoparticles in the fields of parasitology and public and animal health. Nanotechnology has been used in many fields of research and in practical applications. A special subgroup is represented by the so-called nanobiotechnology, which is a multidisciplinary integration of biotechnology, nanotechnology, chemical processing, material science and engineering. In the fields of parasitology and public and animal health this technology has been used to develop systems, wherein acaricides and insecticides are included. This technique avoids direct contact of the hosts of parasites (animals, humans) with the insecticides/acaricides and thus minimizes effects on their health and also the development of resistances of the vectors (ticks, mosquitos, flies etc.). Since actually many original articles on the use of nanoparticles bearing arthopodocides appear in different journals – as well as in Parasitology Research of Springer - it seems reasonable to check the status quo and to elucidate possible chances of progress. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from researchers through veterinarians to professionals working in the conservation, public health, or sustainable agriculture area.
Microbiology & Immunology --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Nanoparticles. --- Parasitology. --- Nanostructured materials --- Particles --- Medical parasitology. --- Medicine. --- Biotechnology. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Parasites --- Health Workforce --- Nano-particles --- NPs (Nanoparticles) --- Health promotion. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education
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Nature helps... of course at first itself by developing measures that give bacteria, fungi, plants and animals a chance to be successful in their struggle for life. As a latecomer on Earth, Homo sapiens was gifted with some droplets of the divine spirit of recognition and thus became able to observe, to analyse and recombine skills of other living beings and to use them for his overwhelming career over the last 10,000 years. Of course fungi, plants, animals and even bacteria were primarily used by mankind as food or as lifestyle products such as beer, but soon it became clear that there was much more potential hidden in these organisms and that they could be used for other purposes, too. Extracts of plants and fungi were recognized as powerful remedies, as medicines, as insecticides or acarizides, as repellents against parasites or even as weapons, e.g. when poisonous compounds from frogs or plants were applied to arrowheads. Over the last 110 years the pharmaceutical industry has often simulated nature by analyzing complex organic substances taken from living organisms and then producing by synthesis absolutely pure compounds, which mostly consisted of only one single active substance. These products had the advantage of acting against precisely one target and thus produced fewer possible side effects than the complex plant extracts. However, the more serious side effect was that disease agents could develop resistances to pure medicinal products much more easily. Thus after 70 years of excellent prospects for chemotherapy, some dark clouds appeared and quickly gathered, so that several therapeutic remedies now no longer work. Therefore in many countries - especially in those where the pure chemotherapeutics are too expensive for the poor population - the cry “back to nature” is becoming louder and louder. This has led to an enormous increase of studies that again use natural extracts as remedies in the fight against diseases. The present book summarizes examples of promising aspects in a broad spectrum of applications and shows how extracts derived from bacteria, marine organisms, plants or even animals may help to treat infectious diseases, how such organisms may keep away parasites and pests from the bodies of plants or animals, including humans, and how they can be used directly to aid in diagnosis, promote wound healing and even to help catch criminals. These 15 chapters offer not only basic research on these different fields, but also show how useful and effective products can be developed from research.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use. --- Materia medica, Vegetable. --- Medicinal plants. --- Materia medica --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Plant extracts --- Medical parasitology --- Plants --- Pesticides --- Animals --- Host-Pathogen Interactions --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- Biology --- Plant Preparations --- Agrochemicals --- Toxic Actions --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Biological Processes --- Biological Products --- Eukaryota --- Specialty Uses of Chemicals --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Biological Phenomena --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Organisms --- Complex Mixtures --- Phenomena and Processes --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Insecticides --- Parasitology --- Invertebrates --- Plant Extracts --- Plants, Medicinal --- Host-Parasite Interactions --- Zoology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Zoology - General --- Therapeutic use --- Pharmacognosy. --- Alternative medicine. --- Medical parasitology. --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Complementary medicine --- Healing systems --- Systems, Healing --- Systems, Therapeutic --- Therapeutic systems --- Pharmacognostics --- Parasites --- Life sciences. --- Parasitology. --- Ecology. --- Microbiology. --- Zoology. --- Life Sciences. --- Eukaryotic Microbiology. --- Medical sciences --- Parasitic diseases --- Medicine --- Integrative medicine --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Natural history --- Ecology --- Ecology .
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Knowledge in the field of parasitology must be kept at a high level and up to date in order to fight a parasitosis as quickly and effectively as possible. This work, one of Springer's renowned and authoritative Major Reference Works, contributes to these goals in several ways. First, it comprises a number of entries, consisting of both in-depth essays and definitions. Secondly, the content has been improved even more by adding additional tables and high-quality figures. Thirdly, the extensive linking between definitions and essays facilitates information within a minimum of time. The Encyclopedia of Parasitology contains clearly structured essays in alphabetical order with extensive cross-references between definitions and related entries. International contributors, who are well-known specialists in their fields, give a comprehensive review of all parasites and therapeutic strategies in veterinarian and human parasitology. This 4th edition presents all important parasites of humans and animals in detail and the less important ones in short. Each parasite has its own large “chapter” with all subheadings (life cycle, morphology, treatment etc.). Topics common for other parasites and/or transmitted agents of diseases are presented in separate topics, which altogether are listed alphabetically. Furthermore all important parasitological and medical terms are explained as separate topics and are cross-linked to the chapters/topics, where they are explained intensively. Existing entries are updated and presented in the light of the latest knowledge.
Medicine. --- Parasitology. --- Tropical medicine. --- Epidemiology. --- Zoology. --- Biomedicine. --- Tropical Medicine. --- Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science. --- Diseases, Tropical --- Hygiene, Tropical --- Medicine --- Public health, Tropical --- Sanitation, Tropical --- Tropical diseases --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Diseases --- Public health --- Medical climatology --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Medical parasitology. --- Veterinary medicine. --- Farriery --- Large animal medicine --- Large animal veterinary medicine --- Livestock medicine --- Veterinary science --- Animal health --- Domestic animals --- Livestock --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Losses --- Parasites
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This textbook focuses on the most important parasites affecting dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, rabbits, rodents, birds, fishes, reptiles and bees. For each parasite, the book offers a concise summary including its distribution, epidemiology, lifecycle, morphology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapeutic measures. Numerous informative tables and more than 500 color micrographs and schemes present the most important aspects of the parasites, their induced diseases and the latest information on suitable prevention and control measures. 100 questions at the end of the book offer readers the chance to test their comprehension. The book is well suited as both a textbook and a reference guide for veterinarians, students of the veterinary and life sciences, veterinarian nurses, laboratory staff, and pet and livestock owners.
Medicine. --- Medical microbiology. --- Parasitology. --- Public health. --- Tropical medicine. --- Zoology. --- Biomedicine. --- Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science. --- Public Health. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Tropical Medicine. --- Diseases, Tropical --- Hygiene, Tropical --- Medicine --- Public health, Tropical --- Sanitation, Tropical --- Tropical diseases --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Medical parasitology. --- Veterinary medicine. --- Microbiology. --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Medical climatology --- Microbial biology --- Microorganisms --- Farriery --- Large animal medicine --- Large animal veterinary medicine --- Livestock medicine --- Veterinary science --- Animal health --- Domestic animals --- Livestock --- Human beings --- Human parasitology --- Medical sciences --- Parasitology --- Parasitic diseases --- Diseases --- Losses --- Parasites --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation
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