Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Dr. Bhanu Shrivastava and Dr. Vandana Shrivastava Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 256 ISBN: 9783845432892
Описание
One of the largest fields in parasitology, medical parasitology is the subject which deals with the parasites that infect man, the diseases caused by them, clinical piture and the response generated by man against them. It's also concerned with the various methods of their diagnosis, treatment and finally their prevention & control. A parasite is an organism that live on or within another organism called the host . These include organisms such as:• Plasmodium spp., the protozoan parasite which causes malaria. The four species of malaria parasites infective to humans are Plasmodium falciparum,Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium vivax & Plasmodium ovale. • Leishmania donovani, the unicellular organism which causes leishmaniasis • multicellular organisms such as Schistosoma spp., Wuchereria bancrofti and Necator americanus etc.Parasitology is the study of parasites and as such does not include bacterial, fungal or viral parasites. Human parasites are separated into intestinal and blood borne...
