Arora Medical Parasitology
Charise Scrivner
This document provides an introduction to medical parasitology. It outlines the learning outcomes which are to provide knowledge on principles of medical parasitology, the role of parasites in health and disease, clinical manifestations of infectious diseases, laboratory diagnosis of parasites and treatment. It then discusses various aspects of parasitology including types of parasites, hosts, sources of infection, portals of entry, life cycles, immunity, and laboratory diagnosis. Key points covered are microparasites vs macroparasites, types of hosts, sources of contamination, common portals of entry, life cycles with varying numbers of intermediate hosts, immune response mechanisms, and clinical specimens and diagnostic methods for parasitic infections.Read less
The third edition of Medical Parasitology has been thoroughly revised. Three chapters on medically important arthropods quality assurance in parasitology and ethics in medical laboratory have been added. Almost all other chapters have been revised. yet have not made the book bulky with additional information. Diagrams are coloured uncomplicated and clear as also the pictures ofgross and histopathological sections. Diagrams of life cycle are computer?drawn with simple line sketches. Diagrammatic representation of relative sizes and morphology of protozoa and helminthic eggs at the end of the book has good visual impact and will help in understanding the importance of micrometry in diagnostic parasitology. Indian data have been given in most of the chapters. The language is lucid and easy to understand. This book shall be highly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students and medical laboratory technology students.
The fifth edition of Medical Parasitology has been thoroughly revised and yet the book is not unwieldy or bulky. Classification of parasites and treatment of parasitic infections have been updated. Opportunistic parasitic infections in AIDS cases and nosocomial parasitic infections have been described in one of the chapters. Diagrams of the life cycles of the parasites are computer-drawn with simple line sketches. New parasitic figures have been added. Indian data have been given in most of the chapters. For quick revision, Overview of Parasitology has been given in the last chapter of the book. Diagrammatic representation of relative sizes and morphology of protozoa and helminthic eggs at the end of the book has good visual impact and will help in understanding the importance of micrometry in diagnostic parasitology. The language is lucid and easy to understand. This book shall be highly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students, clinicians and medical laboratory technology students.
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