Enteric infection 2 : intestinal helminths
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Enteric infection 2 : intestinal helminths
Chapman & Hall Medical, 1995
1st ed
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Enteric infection two
Enteric infection II
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Intestinal infection continues to be a major problem worldwide to which helminths make an enormous contribution with billions of individuals currently affected. Like the first volume - which covered bacterial, viral and protozoan infections of the gut - this book brings together clinical descriptions of disease and up-to-date guidance on management with important basic helminth infection. The contributors are an international panel of experts - with expertise as clinical and laboratory investigators and many of whom have a continuing active research interest in those parts of the world where these infections are most common. This companion volume produces serves as a complete text on enteric infection. The book should be of value to infectious disease physicians, microbiologists, gastroenterologists, general physicians and hospital specialists, as well as basic scientists working on all aspects of intestinal infection.
Table of Contents
Global impact of intestinal helminth infection. Epidemiology and transmission of intestinal helminths. Molecular aspects of colonization and helminth pathogenicity. Mechanisms of injury. Immune responses: protective immunity, adaption and pathogenesis. Geohelminth infections and nutritional status. Strongyloides stercoralis. Trichinella spriralis. Ascariasis. Human hookworm infection. Capillaria philippinensis and Trichostrongylus orientalis. Anisakis and Oesophagostomum species infection. Taenia solium, Taenia saginata and Hymenolepis. Small intestinal trematodes. Trichuris trichiura. Enterobius vermicularis infection. Abdominal angiostrongylosis. Schistosomiasis. Intestinal helminths - new approaches to diagnosis. Principles of antihelmintic chemotherapy. Vaccines against intestinal helminths. Global control of helminth-induced disease.
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