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Human Parasitic Diseases Sourcebook

Author(s): Stephen A. Berger, MD, Director, Microbiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center
John Marr, MD, Office of Epidemiology - Virginia Department of Health, Virginia
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763729622
  • ISBN-10:0763729620
  • Spiral/paperback    538 pages      © 2006
Price: International Sales $98.95 US List
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Overview

This clinically oriented text provides tools to aid physicians in diagnosing parasitic diseases. As the world becomes more international, regional parasites are now being globalized. This book covers well known parasitic diseases such as malaria and pinworm but also covers new emerging parasitic diseases. This title is ideal for physicians and public health workers worldwide as well as any student in medical school.

As the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference in the field, the Human Parasitic Diseases Sourcebook provides practical information on diagnosis and treatment of over 100 parasites, some never collected together into a single source.  This is the first practical guide on Parasitology for the clinician.

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Comprehensive and up-to-date

Contains all parasitic diseases documented to infect humans

Practical for clinician use:  Stress is given to signs, symptoms, geographical distribution by individual country, diagnosis, diagnostic tools, epidemiology, and treatment

Extensive use of parasite life cycles to help understand human interaction with disease

Includes a comprehensive section dealing with the use of all drugs in the field with the foreign names of drugs listed

Its size allows the manual to be easily carried in pocket or laptop tote bag

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CHAPTER 1 -    Introduction
          Definitions

CHAPTER 2
          Parasites with worldwide distribution
          Parasites by chief clinical complaint(s)
          Parasites inducing hyper-eosinophilia
          Reservoirs
          Vehicles
          Vector

CHAPTER 3 - Clinical Hints 


CHAPTER 4 – Parasites 
          PARASITES – 
           Parasites are listed from A-Z, with a letter to the right denoting the broad classification of each agent:  (P = Protozoan, C = Cestode, T = Trematode, N = Nematode, A = Arthropod, O = Other). Annotated diagrams, which  outline the life cycles of all major parasites have been reproduced with permission from from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web site:  http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/Frames/body_para_health.htm

CHAPTER 5 – ISO Country Codes
 (including a series of all regional maps)

CHAPTER 6 - Treatment of Parasitic Diseases

CHAPTER 7 – Name Index


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

Stephen A. Berger, MD-Director, Microbiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center

Dr. Berger is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology and has authored eight books and 180 professional papers.  He is the developer of GIDEON, a web-based system for diagnosis and informatics in the fields of Geographic Medicine and Clinical Microbiology.

John Marr, MD-Office of Epidemiology - Virginia Department of Health, Virginia

Dr. Marr received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, General Public Health and Occupational Health. He has been Director of the Office of Epidemiolgy for both the New York City and Virginia Departments of Health, and has traveled and worked extensively in the developing world.. He has authored three childrens’ books on public health topics, written three medical novels, co-edited a text on bioterrorism, written 50 professional papers, and contributed to dozens of journal book reviews and other medical publications.

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