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Parasitic Diseases

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  1. Dickson D. Despommier

    1. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

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  2. Robert W. Gwadz

    1. Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

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  3. Peter J. Hotez

    1. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Back Matter

    Pages 75-75
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  2. Trematodes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    3. Clonorchis sinensis (Loos 1907)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 122-125

    4. Fasciola hepatica (Linnaeus 1758)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 126-130

    5. Paragonimus westermani (Kerbert 1878)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 130-134

    6. Trematodes of Minor Medical Importance

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 135-138

  3. Protozoa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Trichomonas vaginalis (Donne 1836)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 140-143

    3. Giardia lamblia (Stiles 1915)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 144-149

    4. Entamoeba histolytica (Schaudinn 1903)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 151-159

    5. Balantidium coli (Malmsten 1857)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 159-162

    6. Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle and Manceaux 1908)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 162-169

    7. Cryptosporidium sp. and Cyclospora sp

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      Pages 169-174

    9. Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas 1909)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 190-196

    11. Leishmania tropica (Wright 1903) and Leishmania mexicana (Biagi 1953)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 203-209

    12. Leishmania braziliensis (Vianna 1911)

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      Pages 209-213

    13. Leishmania donovani (Ross 1903)

      • Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
      Pages 213-219
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About this book

Worldwide, the numbers of people suffering and dying from parasitic diseases are overwhelming, with more than 100 million cases and 1 million deaths each year from malaria alone. Despite the magnitude of the problem and the importance of the parasites that cause opportunistic infections among persons with HIV/AIDS, medical schools in the United States, Canada, and other developed countries consistently reduce the amount of time spent on parasitic diseases in the curricu­ lum. As a result most medical students receive limited information about these diseases, and are inadequately prepared to diagnose or treat them as physicians. This problem is too large to be resolved within the time available for parasitology in the medical school curriculum; at most, students can be acquainted with the salient features of the medically important parasites. Likewise, the traditional isolation of parasitology from the rest of the curriculum (consistent with its exclu­ sion from most microbiology texts) is another unresolved problem. In my opinion, this is why most physicians are unable to think about the differential diagnosis of parasitic diseases in the same way that they routinely balance the probabilities of malignancy, cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary disease vs other infectious diseases. To resolve these problems, relevant paradigms from parasitology must be used in the teaching of cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and immu­ nology.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

    Dickson D. Despommier

  • Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

    Robert W. Gwadz

  • Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

    Peter J. Hotez

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Parasitic Diseases

  • Authors: Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2476-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7554-1

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2476-1

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XII, 333

  • Additional Information: Originally published as Katz, Parasitic Diseases

  • Topics: Medical Microbiology, Internal Medicine, Microbiology

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