Diagnostic medical parasitology / Lynne S. Garcia, M.S., MT, CLS, F(AAM), LSG & Asociates, Santa Monica, California.

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Main Author: Garcia, Lynne Shore (Author)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2016]
Edition:6th edition.
Subjects:
Diagnostic parasitology.
Physical Description:xxii, 1,388 pages : illlustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Philosophy and approach to diagnostic parasitology
  • Macroscopic and microscopic examination of fecal specimens
  • Additional techniques for stool examination
  • Examination of other specimens from the intestinal tract and the urogenital system
  • Sputum, aspirates, and biopsy material
  • Procedures for detecting blood parasites
  • Parasite recovery: culture methods, animal inoculation, and xenodiagnosis
  • Fixation and special preparation of fecal parasite specimens and arthropods
  • Artifacts that can be confused with parasitic organisms
  • Equipment, supplies, safety, and quality system recommendations for a diagnostic parasitology laboratory: factors influencing parasitology laboratory practice
  • Medical parasitology: case histories
  • Intestinal nematodes
  • Tissue nematodes
  • Filarial nematodes
  • Intestinal cestodes
  • Tissue cestodes: larval forms
  • Intestinal trematodes
  • Liver and lung trematodes
  • Blood trematodes: schistosomes
  • Intestinal protozoa: amebae
  • Intestinal protozoa: flagellates and ciliates
  • Intestinal protozoa (coccidia), microsporidia, and algae
  • Free-living amebae
  • Protozoa from other body sites
  • Malaria and babesiosis
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Trypanosomiasis
  • Unusual parasitic infections
  • Parasitic infections in the compromised host
  • Health care-associated and laboratory-acquired infections
  • Immunology of parasitic infections - Antibody and antigen detection in parasitic infections
  • Histologic identification of parasites
  • Medically important arthropods
  • Treatment of parasitic infections.