TY - BOOK AU - Garcia,Lynne Shore TI - Diagnostic medical parasitology SN - 9781555818999 AV - QR 255 .G165 2016 U1 - 616.9/6075 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Washington, DC PB - ASM Press KW - Diagnostic parasitology KW - Parasitic Diseases KW - diagnosis N1 - Includes appendices, bibliographical references, glossary and index; 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; yeraquin; bri'oot; schoolofmedicine; akhyot; tehzoonah; chamtzan UR - https://library.feu-nrmf.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=d4c4dfb4d967f87ff19f4d71ad6557b6 ER -