Parasitic Zoonoses

✍ Scribed by B.B.Singh Dhaliwal, Prayag Dutt Juyal (auth.)

Publisher: Springer India
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 151
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book “Parasitic Zoonoses” emphasizes a veterinary and public health perspective of zoonotic parasites. This book is suitable for higher undergraduate and graduate students of zoonoses and public health, veterinary parasitology, parasite epidemiology; public health workers; public health veterinarians; field veterinarians, medical professionals and all others interested in the subject. More than 15 protozoa and 50 other parasitic diseases are zoonotic in nature and all these diseases have been discussed in detail. The first chapter is concerned with classification of zoonotic parasites, food borne, vector borne and occupation related zoonotic parasites. The remaining chapters cover etiology, epidemiology, life cycle, transmission, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention and control of zoonotic parasites. The text is illustrated with a large number of coloured figures. An alphabetical bibliography for every disease has also been included so that readers have access to further information.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Protozoonoses....Pages 15-40
Trematode Zoonoses....Pages 41-63
Cestode Zoonoses....Pages 65-82
Nematode Zoonoses....Pages 83-122
Arthropod Zoonoses....Pages 123-129
Back Matter....Pages 131-135

✦ Subjects

Zoology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology; Animal Physiology; Parasitology; Epidemiology

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