The parasites

Parasites

Despite their large size, protozoan parasites are particularly adept at avoiding the unwanted attention of their hosts. This remarkable ability highlights the need for equally clever strategies to prevent and treat infection. With parasitic diseases such asmalaria and sleeping sickness affecting manymillions in the developing world, recent research in genetics and cell biology provides us with ...

The First National Congress of Parasitic Diseases and Zoonotic Parasites

The Parasites of Man

us an opportunity of exhausting available knowledge, and of studying the original work of a master. For thirty years the author has laboured at his subject. Many hundreds of animals have been used for his helminthological experiments, and the number of parasites investigated was much greater. The work everywhere bears the impress of laborious, original, and accurate observation, with the natura...

Synopsis of the Parasites in Iranian Freshwater Fishes

  Two hundred forty seven species of parasites from Iranian freshwater fishes are presented in this synopsis. The parasites were recorded from infestations in fish from different parts of the country and summarized according to host species, organs were the parasite infestations occurred, province, faunal region and reference numbers. The following aspects of parasite infestations were also dis...

The Species of Malaria Parasites

a position to use their microscopes. I have read with much interest Lieut.-Col. O. A. R. Berkeley-Hill's article in your issue for last May, and have been struck with the fact that subtertian crescents were found in the blood films from five patients who were inoculated with the blood of persons suffering from benign tertian malaria. At first sight this evidence appears quite a formidable argum...