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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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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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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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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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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