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Philosophy and approach to diagnostic parasitology -- Collection, preservation, and shipment of fecal specimens -- Macroscopic and microscopic examination of fecal specimens -- Additional techniques for stool examination -- Examination of other specimens from the intestinal tract and the urogenital system -- Sputum, aspirates, and biopsy material -- Procedures for detecting blood parasites -- Parasite recovery: culture methods, animal inoculation, and xenodiagnosis -- Fixation and special preparation of fecal parasite specimens and arthropods -- Artifacts that can be confused with parasitic organisms -- Equipment, supplies, safety, and quality system recommendations for a diagnostic parasitology laboratory: factors influencing parasitology laboratory practice -- Medical parasitology: case histories -- Intestinal nematodes -- Tissue nematodes -- Filarial nematodes -- Intestinal cestodes -- Tissue cestodes: larval forms -- Intestinal trematodes -- Liver and lung trematodes -- Blood trematodes: schistosomes -- Intestinal protozoa: amebae -- Intestinal protozoa: flagellates and ciliates -- Intestinal protozoa (coccidia), microsporidia, and algae -- Free-living amebae -- Protozoa from other body sites -- Malaria and babesiosis -- Leishmaniasis -- Trypanosomiasis -- Unusual parasitic infections -- Parasitic infections in the compromised host -- Health care-associated and laboratory-acquired infections -- Immunology of parasitic infections - Antibody and antigen detection in parasitic infections -- Histologic identification of parasites -- Medically important arthropods -- Treatment of parasitic infections. |
