Medical Parasitology

Author: Yin Guorong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: To enhance the reference value of this book, an appendix introduces 56 commonly used antiparasitic drugs and 28 sanitary insecticides. To support bilingual teaching, major noun concepts and the life cycles of important parasites are presented in both Chinese and English, accompanied by an English vocabulary index, and 46 URLs of commonly used international parasitology websites are provided. This book serves as a teaching material for higher medical colleges in the 21st century. It consists of 5 parts and 19 chapters, including General Principles, Medical Helminthology, Medical Protozoology, Medical Arthropods, and Laboratory Diagnosis Techniques. Based on the training programs of five-year and seven-year higher medical colleges, it focuses on the serious parasitic diseases and important disease vectors that commonly harm human health in China, while also introducing human parasites that are rare in the country but pose potential threats, covering over 110 species of human parasites and disease vectors. It systematically introduces common laboratory diagnostic techniques for parasitic diseases. The book contains 167 illustrations with both Chinese and English annotations, along with 3 color plates.