History of Human Parasitology

History of human parasitology.

Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of parasitic worms and over 70 species of protozoa, some derived from our primate ancestors and some acquired from the animals we have domesticated or come in contact with during our relatively short history on Earth. Our knowledge of parasitic infections extends into antiquity, and descriptions of parasites and parasitic infections are found in the earlie...

A History of Parasitology

A History ofParasitology, by W. D. FOSTER, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1965, pp. vii, 202, 15 plates, 35s. Medical historians and parasitologists will welcome the appearance at last of a work devoted to the history of parasitology. Hitherto no modern study of this subject has been available with the exception of R. Hoeppli's Parasites and Parasitic Infections in early Medicine an...

Human Parasitology

Human parasitology in Czechoslovakia.

Cases in Human Parasitology

Medical Bacteriology is a multicontributor work with chapters provided by various expert medical microbiologists from the United Kingdom. The information is organized into 4 basic areas totaling 12 chapters; 6 covering the analysis of various types of patient specimens; 2 chapters on antimicrobial analysis, susceptibility testing, and direct assay in patient specimens; 2 chapters on laboratory ...