Diagnostic medical parasitology / Lynne S. Garcia, M.S., MT, CLS, F(AAM), LSG & Asociates, Santa Monica, California.

Author/creator Garcia, Lynne Shore author.
Format Book
Edition6th edition.
PublicationWashington, DC : ASM Press, [2016]
Copyright Date©2016
Descriptionxxii, 1,388 pages : colored illlustrations ; 29 cm
Subjects
Diagnostic parasitology.
Parasitic Diseases--diagnosis.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Garcia, Lynne Shore, author. Diagnostic medical parasitology 6th edition. Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2016] 9781555819002
LCCN 2015041826
ISBN9781555818999 (alk. paper)
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