Diagnostic medical parasitology / Lynne S. Garcia, M.S., MT, CLS, F(AAM), LSG & Asociates, Santa Monica, California.
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Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
ASM Press,
[2016]
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Edition: | 6th edition. |
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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.