Roundworms and other infestations

Infections and Infestations

THIS book by 20 eminent American contributors is intended as a practical guide to those responsible for the immediate care of severe accidents on arrival in hospital. To achieve this end the authors have adopted a method of presentation which relies heavily on numbered lists, either of possibilities in diagnosis or stcps in treatment. One advantage of this method is that, in spite of having man...

Roundworms in Fishes and So-called "herring-worm Disease".

Zoonotic Baylisascaris procyonis Roundworms in Raccoons, China

Risk factors for Lyme disease in a small rural community in northern California. Population structure of the Lyme bor-reliosis spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the Western black-legged tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California. clones of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto cause invasive infection in humans. distribution of the ospC gene, a transfer-able serotype determinant of Borrelia b...

Sodium Fluoride Effective for Removing Roundworms

No Adaptation of Roundworms to Resistant Hosts

A genetically diverse population of Haemonchus contortus was serially passaged through Merino hosts bred for either increased or decreased resistance to the parasite. After 30 parasite generations, the resulting nematode sub-populations were compared with each other and with the foundation population, by infecting lines of the selected sheep and measuring the resulting faecal egg counts (FECs) ...