Medical ParasitologyStudies the effects of parasites on the community as the chance of the spread of these diseases increases with air travel. Also deals with the epidemiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis of the infections for which the human parasites are responsible. |
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... disease centers may not reveal symptoms of the infections they have contracted until after they have reached home . The chance of the spread of the disease to their rela- tives and other associates at home is thus enhanced . An added ...
... disease centers may not reveal symptoms of the infections they have contracted until after they have reached home . The chance of the spread of the disease to their rela- tives and other associates at home is thus enhanced . An added ...
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... disease than in Trypanosoma gambiense infection . Tryparsamide is said to be much less satisfactory for treating the Rhodesian infection than it is for the Gambian disease . Prophylaxis . The same prophylactic measures are used for the ...
... disease than in Trypanosoma gambiense infection . Tryparsamide is said to be much less satisfactory for treating the Rhodesian infection than it is for the Gambian disease . Prophylaxis . The same prophylactic measures are used for the ...
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... disease of man in the tropics . More persons suffer from the infection in warm climates than from any other disease , and no one living in or visiting endemic areas can ex- pect to remain free of malaria . Fortunately , specific ...
... disease of man in the tropics . More persons suffer from the infection in warm climates than from any other disease , and no one living in or visiting endemic areas can ex- pect to remain free of malaria . Fortunately , specific ...
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INFECTION | 15 |
EPIDEMIOLOGY | 25 |
NATURAL RESISTANCE AND ACQUIRED IMMUNITY | 34 |
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adult worm AĆ«des Africa amoebae amoebiasis Ancylostoma duodenale Anopheles antigen Ascaris lumbricoides Balantidium coli bite blood films body cause cells centimeters cercariae cestodes Clonorchis sinensis Common synonyms cycle cysts develop diagnosis Diphyllobothrium latum disease donovani drug Echinococcus granulosus eggs embryos Endamoeba histolytica endemic areas erythrocytes facing feces female fever flies fluid forms glands helminths heterophyes hominis hookworm host human infection human parasites hydatid Hymenolepis immunity ingested kala azar known larvae larval stage Leishmania tropica lesions liver malarial parasites male microfilariae microns mite Morphology mosquito mouth nana occurs organism ovale parasite Pathogenicity patient percent alcohol peripheral blood Plasmodium falciparum Plasmodium malariae Plasmodium vivax Plate posterior proglottids Prophylaxis protozoan Schistosoma mansoni schistosomiasis scolex skin test snail species spleen stained susceptible symptoms Taenia saginata Taenia solium tapeworms tick tissue transmission transmit trematode Trichinella spiralis Trichomonas Trichuris trichiura trophozoite tropics tsetse usually vector vertebrate Wuchereria bancrofti