Protozoa and human disease /

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Author / Creator:Wiser, Mark F.
Imprint:New York : Garland Science, c2011.
Description:xi, 218, [24] p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8286060
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ISBN:9780815365006 (alk. paper)
0815365004 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to medical protozoology
  • Overview of intestinal protozoa
  • Entamoeba and amebiasis
  • Giardiasis
  • Trichomonas vaginalis and other trichomonads
  • Balantidium coli and blastocystis hominis
  • Kinetoplastids
  • African trypanosomiasis
  • Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas' disease
  • Leishmaniasis
  • General apicomplexan biology
  • Cryptosporidium
  • Monoxenous intestinal coccidia
  • Toxoplasma gondii and tissue cyst forming coccidia
  • Malaria
  • Babesiosis
  • Free-living protozoa affecting human health.